title: Impulsive responses to emotion as a transdiagnostic vulnerability to internalizing and externalizing symptoms.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Discussion focuses on limitations and clinical implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, United States. sljohnson@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Sheri L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Carver
authors.forename: Jutta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Joormann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Aggression; Alcohol Problems; Anxiety; Borderline; Emotion; Impulsivity; Transdiagnostic