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Published on: March 17, 2019
Impulsive responses to emotion as a transdiagnostic vulnerability to internalizing and externalizing symptoms
Sheri L Johnson1, Charles S Carver, Jutta Joormann
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, United States. sljohnson@berkeley.edu
Introduction:
This study explored the hypothesis that impulsive reactions to heightened emotion may reflect a transdiagnostic vulnerability to both externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
Methods:
A sample of undergraduates completed self-report measures of aggression, borderline personality disorder symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and alcohol problems, and a subset completed interviews that assessed suicidality. All participants also completed self-report measures relating to impulsivity. We predicted that emotion-reactive impulsivity, but not other aspects of impulsivity, would be related to the set of psychopathology symptoms.
Results:
Multiple regression analyses found that emotion-reactive impulsivity was uniquely related to each of the psychopathology scales, whereas non-emotion-relevant impulsivity was uniquely related only to alcohol problems.
Conclusion:
Discussion focuses on limitations and clinical implications.
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