University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Assessment. 2022 Apr;29(3):572-582. doi: 10.1177/1073191120983889. Epub 2021 Jan 7.
There is a small body of research that has connected individual differences in negative urgency, the tendency to report rash actions in response to negative emotions, with self-report depressive and anxiety symptoms. Despite the conceptual overlap of negative urgency with negative emotionality, the tendency to experience frequent and intense negative emotions, even fewer studies have examined whether the association of negative urgency with internalizing symptoms hold when controlling for negative emotionality. In the current study, we estimated the bivariate association between negative urgency and internalizing symptoms, tested whether they remained significant after partialling out negative emotionality, and tested whether these effects generalized to real-time experiences of negative emotions. We used data from five independent samples of high school and college students, assessed with global self-report ( = 1,297) and ecological momentary assessment ( = 195). Results indicated that in global self-report data, negative urgency was moderately and positively associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms, and the partial association with depressive symptoms (but not anxiety symptoms) controlling for negative emotionality remained significant and moderate in magnitude. This pattern was replicated in ecological momentary assessment data. Negative urgency may convey risk for depressive symptoms, independent of the effects of negative emotionality.
有一小部分研究将个体在消极冲动方面的差异（即报告在消极情绪下采取轻率行为的倾向）与自我报告的抑郁和焦虑症状联系起来。尽管消极冲动与消极情感性在概念上存在重叠，即体验频繁而强烈的消极情绪的倾向，但很少有研究检验在控制消极情感性的情况下，消极冲动与内化症状之间的关联是否成立。在本研究中，我们估计了消极冲动和内化症状之间的双变量关联，检验了在剔除消极情感性后它们是否仍然显著，并检验了这些效应是否推广到了消极情绪的实时体验中。我们使用了来自高中和大学生的五个独立样本的数据，通过全球自我报告（n=1297）和生态瞬时评估（n=195）进行评估。结果表明，在全球自我报告数据中，消极冲动与抑郁和焦虑症状呈中等程度的正相关，在控制消极情感性后，与抑郁症状的部分关联（而非焦虑症状）仍然显著且具有中等程度的效应量。这一模式在生态瞬时评估数据中得到了复制。消极冲动可能会增加抑郁症状的风险，而与消极情感性的影响无关。
