THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL AND DYSFUNCTIONAL IMPULSIVITY AND THE EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE

According to Dickman (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58 , 95-102 1990), two types of impulsive personality trait can be distin guished within the self-report domain: functional impulsivity and dysf unctional impulsivity. The present study investigated the relationship s between functional impulsivity and dysfunctional impulsivity and the personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism (Eys enck & Eysenck, Psychoticism as a dimension of personality, 1976). The results lend some support to Dickman's distinction between the two im pulsivity traits: whilst functional impulsivity correlated positively with psychoticism and negatively with neuroticism, dysfunctional impul sivity was unrelated to these two variables. On the other hand, both f unctional and dysfunctional impulsivity were positively correlated wit h extraversion.