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- Recent advances in personality theory indicate that there are distinct constructs that dispose individuals to rash action and risky behavior, as opposed to one broad trait of impulsivity. Two are emotion based, two represent deficits in conscientiousness, and one is sensation seeking.
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Under heightened emotional states, individuals are more inclined to engage in ill-considered or rash actions than at other times. The authors present evidence for the existence of 2 related traits called positive and negative urgency.
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Two of those traits are positive and negative urgency, which refer to emotion-based dispositions to rash action. Each of the two urgency traits is unidimensional, and each has a distinct concurrent and prospective predictive role.
- Melissa A. Cyders, Gregory T. Smith
- 10.1037/a0013341
- 2008
- 2008/11
The authors present evidence for the existence of 2 related traits called positive and negative urgency. The traits refer to individual differences in the disposition to engage in rash action when experiencing extreme positive and negative affect, respectively.
These results demonstrate the importance of distinguishing among dispositions to rash action, and specifically the importance of studying emotion-based dispositions (negative and positive urgency).
- Naomi R. Marmorstein
- 2013
Research has identified 2 emotion-based dispositions to rash action, referred to as positive urgency and negative urgency. They are thought to reflect tendencies to engage in rash acts when in extremely positive and extremely negative moods, respectively.
This conference abstract summarizes a presentation that discusses positive and negative urgency, which refer to individual differences in the disposition to engage in rash action when experiencing extreme positive or extreme negative affect, respectively (Cyders & Smith, 2008).
This paper describes evidence that different personality dispositions to rash action can be measured reliably and validly in preadolescent children. This work was based on an integration of two recent advances in the study of personality.
