Chunk #26 — Evidence for the Existence of Positive and Negative Urgency — Urgency in Relation to Comprehensive Models of Personality — Factor analyses relating positive and negative urgency to comprehensive personality structure
We therefore next constrained the analysis to produce five factors. The results included the usual five factors. Negative urgency had substantial loadings on three factors: neuroticism (.58), conscientiousness (−.40), and agreeableness (− .37). Positive urgency did as well: conscientiousness (− .39), agreeableness (−.30), and neuroticism (.28). Neither scale loaded significantly on either extraversion or openness to experience. A similar pattern occurred for the impulsiveness facet of the NEO-PI-R: neuroticism (.52), conscientiousness (−.35), and agreeableness (−.25).
