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Heterogeneous inhibition processes involved in different facets of self-reported impulsivity: Evidence from a community sample

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Gay, Philippe, Rochat, Lucien, Billieux, Joël, d’Acremont, Mathieu, Van der Linden, Martial·2008·Acta Psychologica

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Whiteside and Lynam (Whiteside, S. P., & Lynam, D. R. (2001). The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: Using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 669-689) clarified the multifaceted nature of impulsivity by identifying four distinct facets of self-reported impulsive behaviors: urgency, (lack of) premeditation, (lack of) perseverance, and sensation seeking. Building on work by Bechara and Van der Linden (Bechara, A., & Van der Linden, M. (2005). Decision-making and impulse control after frontal lobe injuries. Current Opinion in Neurology, 18, 734-739), the main objective of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that perseverance and urgency map onto the two distinct inhibitory functions distinguished by Friedman and Miyake (Friedman, N. P., & Miyake, A. (2004). The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: A latent-variable analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 101-135): prepotent response inhibition and resistance to proactive interference. Participants (N=126) completed the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale and three tasks: a recent-negatives task to assess proactive interference in working memory, and two Go/No-Go tasks at different paces, the slower of which also assessed task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs). Consistent with the hypothesis, TUTs were positively correlated with lack of perseverance, and multiple regressions revealed that urgency was specifically related to errors in prepotent response inhibition, and lack of perseverance to errors due to difficulties overcoming proactive interference.

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Authors
Gay, P., Rochat, L., Billieux, J., d’Acremont, M., & Van der Linden, M.
Affiliations
University of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Gay, Philippe
Venue
Acta Psychologica
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-11
Volume
129
Issue
3
Pages
332-339
ISSN
0001-6918 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2133964156
Cited by
159
References
68
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FWCI
5.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Acta Psychologica (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
  • ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
Keywords
impulsivity, urgency, lack of perseverance, premeditation, sensation seeking, prepotent response inhibition, proactive interference, task-unrelated thoughts, go/no-go task, decision-making, impulse control, working memory
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Personality Inventory, Proactive Inhibition, Psychomotor Performance, Young Adult

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