correlations with enhancement (r=.19) and coping (r=.21) motives in the Cooper et al. (2000) study. Indeed, noting that individuals high in impulsivity may engage in risky behaviors associated with immediate rewards that can be positively or negatively reinforcing, Cooper et al. (2000) posited that impulsivity may be linked with both enhancement and coping motives (a notion recently supported by developmental findings in Littlefield, Sher, & Wood, 2010; see Developmental Models of Personality-Alcohol Relation below). Further, impulsivity failed to be a significant predictor of enhancement motives when neuroticism and extraversion were taken into account, suggesting the relation between impulsivity and enhancement motives is at least partially accounted for by other personality traits (see Cooper et al., 2000; Kuntsche et al., 2006).
