Impulsivity and the sexes: measurement and structural invariance of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior ScaleMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Assessment 20:86-97. 2013
..The UPPS-P appears to function comparably across males and females, and mean differences on this scale between the sexes can be thought to reflect trait-level differences...
Emotion-based dispositions to rash action: positive and negative urgencyMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Bull 134:807-28. 2008
..The authors discuss the implications of this theory...
- Measurement of constructs using self-report and behavioral lab tasks: Is there overlap in nomothetic span and construct representation for impulsivity?
Melissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 31:965-82. 2011
..If self-report and lab task conceptualizations measure disparate aspects of impulsivity, we, as a field, should not expect large conceptual overlap between these methods...
- Experimental effect of positive urgency on negative outcomes from risk taking and on increased alcohol consumption
Melissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:367-75. 2010
..Positive urgency's role was above and beyond previously identified risk factors; these findings, combined with prior cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies, provide support for the role of positive urgency in rash action...
On the validity and utility of discriminating among impulsivity-like traitsGregory T Smith
University of Kentucky, KY 40506 0044, USA
Assessment 14:155-70. 2007
..Sensation seeking appeared to relate to the frequency of engaging in risky behaviors, and urgency appeared to relate to problem levels of involvement in those behaviors...
- Positive urgency predicts illegal drug use and risky sexual behavior
Tamika C B Zapolski
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 23:348-54. 2009
..The authors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this finding...
- The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking
Melissa A Cyders
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Addiction 104:193-202. 2009
..Recent advances in personality research that have delineated multiple, separate dispositions to engage in risky behaviors may help to clarify the personality contribution to risk for this problem...
- Disaggregating the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters and chronic orofacial pain: implications for the prediction of health outcomes with PTSD symptom clusters
Melissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 46202, USA
Ann Behav Med 41:1-12. 2011
..Research has established a significant relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and pain; however, very little research has examined the differential role of PTSD symptom clusters on pain outcomes...
- Mediation-moderation analysis of problematic alcohol use: the roles of urgency, drinking motives, and risk/benefit perception
Ayca Coskunpinar
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Addict Behav 37:880-3. 2012
..The goal of the current study is to examine how urgency, drinking motives, and risk/benefit perception concurrently influence problematic alcohol consumption in young adults...
- Longitudinal validation of the urgency traits over the first year of college
Melissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, School of Science, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 46202 3275, USA
J Pers Assess 92:63-9. 2010
..These results provide further evidence for the validity of the theory of emotion-based rash action and for the measures of positive and negative urgency...
- Integration of impulsivity and positive mood to predict risky behavior: development and validation of a measure of positive urgency
Melissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 19:107-18. 2007
..In Study 3, they confirmed the hypothesis that positive urgency differentiated alcoholics from both eating-disordered and control individuals...
- Negative urgency: a personality predictor of externalizing behavior characterized by neuroticism, low conscientiousness, and disagreeableness
Regan E Settles
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:160-72. 2012
..Low Conscientiousness did not add to prediction from negative urgency, except in a few cases. The tendency toward affect-driven rash action may underlie many externalizing behaviors...
- Reactive personality-environment transactions and adult developmental trajectories
Gregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Dev Psychol 42:877-87. 2006
..Differential learning in a task that approximated skill acquisition for a developmental transition implies that personality may help shape individual developmental trajectories in the adult years...
- Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic orofacial pain: an empirical examination of the mutual maintenance model
Jessica L Burris
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
J Orofac Pain 23:243-52. 2009
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