TY - JOUR
T1 - Mood-based rash action and its components
T2 - Positive and negative urgency
AU - Cyders, Melissa A.
AU - Smith, Gregory T.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - In two studies, the authors further validated measures of the construct of positive urgency (the tendency to act rashly while in a positive mood), tested its distinctness from negative urgency, and placed the two constructs in an overall framework for understanding multiple dispositions to rash action. Using a multitrait, multimethod design, they documented convergent validity for positive urgency across two methods of assessment and discriminant validity between positive urgency and each of four other impulsivity-like traits. Using confirmatory factor analysis, they provided support for a 3-factor understanding of disposition to rash action: a mood-based disposition, of which positive and negative urgency are facets; a deficits-in-conscientiousness disposition, of which lack of planning and lack of perseverance are facets; and sensation seeking. They demonstrated that positive and negative urgency differentially predicted, respectively, positive mood-based rash action and negative mood-based rash action.
AB - In two studies, the authors further validated measures of the construct of positive urgency (the tendency to act rashly while in a positive mood), tested its distinctness from negative urgency, and placed the two constructs in an overall framework for understanding multiple dispositions to rash action. Using a multitrait, multimethod design, they documented convergent validity for positive urgency across two methods of assessment and discriminant validity between positive urgency and each of four other impulsivity-like traits. Using confirmatory factor analysis, they provided support for a 3-factor understanding of disposition to rash action: a mood-based disposition, of which positive and negative urgency are facets; a deficits-in-conscientiousness disposition, of which lack of planning and lack of perseverance are facets; and sensation seeking. They demonstrated that positive and negative urgency differentially predicted, respectively, positive mood-based rash action and negative mood-based rash action.
KW - Emotion
KW - Impulsivity
KW - Mood
KW - Risky behaviors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.008
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34250769631
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 43
SP - 839
EP - 850
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 4
ER -