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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2016 Aug;28(3):673–688. doi: 10.1017/S0954579416000249

Table 2.

Item Overlap among Measures of Impulsivity

Middle Childhood: Disruptive Behavior Rating Scale (Mother Report; Barkley & Murphy, 1998) Late Childhood: Junior Eysenck Impulsiveness Questionnaire (Mother-Child Report; Eysenck et al., 1985) Late Adolescence: Lack of Premeditation (Child Report; Zapolski et al., 2010)
Blurts outs answers before questions have been completed My child (I) mostly speaks before thinking things out I tend to blurt out things without thinking
Interrupts or intrudes on others He/She/I generally does and says things without stopping to think I tend to stop and think before doing things (reverse coded)
Has difficulty awaiting turn My child (I) is an impulsive person; He/She usually does things on the spur of the moment I like to stop and think about something before I do it (reverse coded)
He/She/I thinks that planning takes the fun out of things I like to know what to do before I start a project (reverse coded)
He/She/I usually thinks carefully before doing things (reverse coded) I try to take a careful approach to things (reverse coded); I am very careful (reverse coded)