Table 3.
Authors | Yr | Sample | IC scale | Impulsivity scale |
Summary of findings |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chung & Martin | 02 | Adolescents: clinical setting & community | DSM-IV criteria, via interview | Eysenck I.7 | Moderate, significant correlation between “larger/longer” criterion & impulsivity. Non-significant correlation between impulsivity and “quit/control” |
Leeman, Fenton, Kulesza, Stewart, Taylor, & Copeland | 09 | Undergrads, alcohol users | ICS, Part 2 | BIS-11 | Moderate, significant correlation between IC and all three subscales as well as total BIS-11 score. |
Nagoshi | 99 | Undergrads, alcohol users | ICS, Part 3 | Eysenck I.7 | Moderate, significant correlation |
Patock-Peckham, King, Backer-Fulghum, Morgan-Lopez, & Leeman | 11 | Undergrads | ICS, Part 3 | UPPS | Significant path from negative urgency score to impaired control. No other significant paths in SEM to predict drinking quantity and alcohol-related problems. |
Patock-Peckham, King, Morgan-Lopez, Ulloa & Filson-Moses | 11 | Undergrads | ICS, Part 3 | Eysenck I.7 | Significant path from impulsivity to impaired control among both men and women in a multiple group SEM model to predict alcohol-related problems. |
Patock-Peckham & Morgan-Lopez | 06 | Undergrads, alcohol users | ICS, Part 3 | Eysenck I.7 | Significant path from impulsiveness to impaired control in SEM model to predict alcohol frequency/quantity of use and alcohol-related problems |
Note. All studies were cross-sectional. Moderate correlation (0.30–0.49). Yr = year, IC = impaired control, Eysenck I.7 = impulsiveness subscale of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, version 7 (Eysenck, Pearson, Eastin, & Allsopp, 1985), ICS = Impaired Control Scale, BIS-11= Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, version 11 (Patton, Stanford, & Barratt, 1995), UPPS = UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale, original version (Whiteside & Lynam, 2001), SEM = structural equation model. Part 2 of the ICS assesses past difficulties limiting alcohol use. Part 3 of the ICS measures beliefs about future difficulties