Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder?
Recent literature has focused on severity of personality disorder (PD) and a trait-based assessment of PDs in preference to assessment by specific sets of diagnostic criteria. Evidence suggests that emotional impulsiveness, also known as Urgency (Whiteside, & Lynam (2001). The five factor model...
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| description | Recent literature has focused on severity of personality disorder (PD) and a trait-based assessment of PDs in preference to assessment by specific sets of diagnostic criteria. Evidence suggests that emotional impulsiveness, also known as Urgency (Whiteside, & Lynam (2001). The five factor model and impulsivity: Using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences (30, 669–689), might contribute to a broad spectrum of PDs and to overall PD severity. In a sample of 100 forensic psychiatric patients, all men with confirmed PD and a history of serious offending, two hypotheses were tested: first that high Urgency scores would be associated with a broad spectrum of PDs, and with PD severity; and second, that in regression analysis Urgency would uniquely predict measures of PD severity. Results confirmed these hypotheses and are consistent with the idea that emotional impulsiveness/Urgency contributes importantly to overall severity of PD, and in so doing may explain, at least in part, the well-documented link between PD and violence. |
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| spelling | nottingham-360532020-05-04T17:26:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36053/ Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? Howard, Richard Khalifa, Najat Recent literature has focused on severity of personality disorder (PD) and a trait-based assessment of PDs in preference to assessment by specific sets of diagnostic criteria. Evidence suggests that emotional impulsiveness, also known as Urgency (Whiteside, & Lynam (2001). The five factor model and impulsivity: Using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences (30, 669–689), might contribute to a broad spectrum of PDs and to overall PD severity. In a sample of 100 forensic psychiatric patients, all men with confirmed PD and a history of serious offending, two hypotheses were tested: first that high Urgency scores would be associated with a broad spectrum of PDs, and with PD severity; and second, that in regression analysis Urgency would uniquely predict measures of PD severity. Results confirmed these hypotheses and are consistent with the idea that emotional impulsiveness/Urgency contributes importantly to overall severity of PD, and in so doing may explain, at least in part, the well-documented link between PD and violence. Elsevier 2015-12-17 Article PeerReviewed Howard, Richard and Khalifa, Najat (2015) Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? Personality and Individual Differences, 92 . pp. 29-32. ISSN 0191-8869 Impulsiveness Impulsivity Urgency Personality Disorder Violence http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915300982 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.017 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.017 |
| spellingShingle | Impulsiveness Impulsivity Urgency Personality Disorder Violence Howard, Richard Khalifa, Najat Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title | Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title_full | Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title_fullStr | Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title_short | Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| title_sort | is emotional impulsiveness (urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? |
| topic | Impulsiveness Impulsivity Urgency Personality Disorder Violence |
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