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Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder?
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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. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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2016
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Personality disorders, Personality assessment, Emotions, Impulsive behaviour
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Howard, R. C. & Khalifa, N. (2016). Is emotional impulsiveness (Urgency) a core feature of severe personality disorder? Personality and Individual Differences, 92, pp.29-32.
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Article as accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences published by Elsevier
available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.12.017
© 2016. This manuscript is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/