THE NOMOLOGICAL AND PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY OF TIME URGENCY

The present study developed a nomological network that theoretically l inked time urgency to related variables, To test the proposed relation ships, time urgency, achievement strivings (AS), and impatience/irrita bility (II) were utilized as predictors of health and performance 18 m onths later. Multivariate canonical correlation analyses provided supp ort for a complex nomological network among the predictors and the out come measures. Redundancy coefficients and a rotated structure matrix were employed to identify two significant dimensions, labeled crammers and organizers, that linked the predictors with the outcome measures, The results also indicated that the time urgency subcomponents were d ifferentially related to several health outcomes. These findings provi de further validity evidence for the time urgency construct, and they suggest that time urgency variables should be considered as important predictors of both health and performance outcomes, Directions for fut ure research on time urgency are discussed. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons , Ltd.