The role of urgency and its underlying psychological mechanisms in problematic behaviours

被引:199
作者
Billieux, Joel [1 ,2 ]
Gay, Philippe [2 ]
Rochat, Lucien [2 ]
Van der Linden, Martial [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, Cognit Psychopathol & Neuropsychol Unit, FPSE, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
[2] Univ Geneva, Swiss Ctr Affect Sci, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
[3] Univ Liege, Cognit Psychopathol Unit, Liege, Belgium
关键词
Urgency; Impulsivity; Inhibition; Decision making; Problematic behaviour; SOMATIC MARKER HYPOTHESIS; LATENT-VARIABLE ANALYSIS; DECISION-MAKING; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; RESPONSE-INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOURETTE-SYNDROME; POSITIVE URGENCY; NEGATIVE URGENCY; WORKING-MEMORY;
D O I
10.1016/j.brat.2010.07.008
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
The urgency facet of impulsivity, that is, the tendency to act rashly in response to intense emotional contexts [Cyders, M. A., & Smith, G. T. (2008). Emotion-based dispositions to rash action: positive and negative urgency. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 807-828], has been related to a wide range of maladaptive behaviours. The present study further investigates the role of urgency in problematic behaviours by considering distinct psychological mechanisms that may underlie this component of impulsivity. With this aim, 95 volunteer participants were screened with self-reported questionnaires assessing urgency and three problematic behaviours (compulsive buying, excessive mobile phone use, excessive Internet use). They performed two laboratory tasks: a stop-signal task designed to assess the capacity to inhibit prepotent responses in response to both neutral and emotional stimuli; and the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) measuring the ability to take into account the future consequences of an action. A poor ability to inhibit prepotent responses in the emotional condition of the stop-signal task was found to predict more disadvantageous choices in the IGT, which ultimately results in higher urgency and more problematic behaviours. These findings shed new light on the construct of urgency, its related psychological mechanisms, and its role in problematic behaviours. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1085 / 1096
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