UPPS-P Impulsivity Scale

In Habit Behavioral Protocol and Synaptic Pruning Adolescence (SPA), UPPS-P is collected as part of the REDCap (previously qualitrics) behavioral survey battery.

The UPPS-P is a self-report questionnaire assessing personality traits that lead to impulsive-like behaviors in adults (though we use in adolescent sample). Consists of 59 items on a 4-point Likert scale, broken into five subscales: negative urgency (negurg), positive urgency (pu), sensation seeking (ss), perseverance (pers), premeditation (pre)

Scoring generates:

• total impulsivity score (sum of each subscale score)
• score for each subscale

Scoring script output files can be found on Hera. Also see REDCap Data.

scoring (for qualitrcs coded responses) is part of the LNCDR R package (uppsp_score.R)

• requires 59-items
• dataset in wide format (with lunaid)
• contains reversed and non-reversed item coding

 revitems<-c(2,3,5,7,8,9,10,12,13,15,17,18,20,22,23,25,26,29,30,31,34,35,36,39,40,41,44,45,46,47,49,50,51,52,54,56,57,58,59)
 nonrevitems<-c(1,4,6,11,14,16,19,21,24,27,28,32,33,37,38,42,43,48,53,55)

• subscales are broken down by the following items

 NUitems<-c(2,7,12,17,22,29,34,39,44,50,53,58)
 Premeditems<-c(1,6,11,16,21,28,33,38,43,48,55)
 Persitems<-c(4,9,14,19,24,27,32,37,42,47)
 SSitems<-c(3,8,13,18,23,26,31,36,41,46,51,56)
 PUitems<-c(5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,49,52,54,57,59)

Citation: Whiteside, S. P. and D. R. Lynam (2001). The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 30(4): 669-689.

More information on the scale: https://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/enhanced/assessments/upps-p.html