ArticleJournal of personality2024
Acting impulsively when "upset": Examining associations among negative urgency, undifferentiated negative affect, and impulsivity using momentary and experimental methods.
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- Measuring impulsivity in daily life: A systematic review and recommendations for future research.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- Knowing what you feel matters: Emotion differentiation impacts climate-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.Journal of environmental psychology · 2026Article
- The Role of Emotion Dysregulation, Impulsiveness and Rumination in Psychopathology: Evidence from an Italian Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionNegative urgency is a personality pathway toward impulsive behavior that increases risk for transdiagnostic psychopathology. Limited research supports the core tenant of urgency theory, that is, that individuals with high trait negative urgency act more impulsive when experiencing increased negative emotion. We hypothesized that it may not be negative emotion intensity, but difficulty in differentiating among negative emotions, that prompts impulsive behavior among individuals with elevated negative urgency.
methodsWe tested this hypothesis in 200 undergraduates using both ecological momentary assessment (measured momentary undifferentiated negative affect and impulsivity) and experimental methods (manipulated emotion differentiation and measured behavioral impulsivity).
resultsMomentary undifferentiated negative affect predicted impulsivity in the specific domains of work/school and exercise, but interactions between momentary undifferentiated negative affect and negative urgency were not supported. Manipulated emotion differentiation did not impact behavioral impulsivity regardless of negative urgency scores.
conclusionInconsistent with theory, the impulsive behavior of individuals with negative urgency may not be conditional on elevated or undifferentiated negative affect.
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