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 (n = 1,297) and ecological momentary assessment (n = 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.

有一小部分研究将负面紧迫性的个体差异、针对负面情绪报告轻率行为的倾向与自我报告的抑郁和焦虑症状联系起来。尽管负面紧迫感与负面情绪在概念上存在重叠，即体验频繁和强烈的负面情绪的倾向，但在控制负面情绪时，更少的研究检查了负面紧迫感与内化症状的关联是否成立。在当前的研究中，我们估计了负面紧迫感和内化症状之间的双变量关联，测试了在部分消除负面情绪后它们是否仍然显着，并测试了这些影响是否可以推广到负面情绪的实时体验。n = 1,297）和生态瞬时评估（n = 195）。结果表明，在全球自我报告数据中，消极紧迫感与抑郁和焦虑症状呈中度和正相关，与控制消极情绪的抑郁症状（但不是焦虑症状）的部分关联仍然显着且幅度适中。这种模式在生态瞬时评估数据中得到了复制。消极的紧迫感可能会带来抑郁症状的风险，与消极情绪的影响无关。