Chunk #22 — 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
from random data. Loadings on the five were very similar to what has been reported in the past: each of the five factors (neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) emerged, with the strongest loadings from their designated facets. There were also cross-loadings of facets on general factors that were highly consistent with previous factor analyses of the measure. For example, the angry hostility facet of neuroticism also loaded, negatively, on agreeableness. The impulsiveness facet of neuroticism, identified as a marker of negative urgency by Whiteside and Lynam (2001), had negative loadings on both conscientiousness and agreeableness in addition to its primary loading on neuroticism. Both the angry hostility and impulsiveness findings were present in the standardization sample (Costa & McCrae, 1992).
