冲动性的测量方法

近年来,冲动性引发的社会问题引起广泛关注。本文梳理了冲动性定义和测量方法,例举了常用的11个量表和5种行为测量任务,讨论和总结了其关系。总体说来,量表之间相关较高,行为测量任务之间、量表和行为测量任务之间的相关较低。当前冲动性研究领域理论框架和定义凌乱,缺乏一致认可的测量方法。我们认为,整合已有定义和测量方法,利用机器学习算法等新技术方法建模,对深入理解“冲动性”、发现更好的冲动性测量方法至关重要。

The Measurements of Impulsivity

Social problems caused by impulsivity have gathered much attention from the public in recent years.What is impulsivity?And how to measure it?Research of these two questions began in the 1930's and has led to many findings and produced a plethora of measurements.We reviewed and examined existing definitions and measurements of impulsivity,described in detail 11 scales and five behavioral tasks commonly used to measure impulsivity,and summarized the relationships among these scales and behavioral measurements.Out of this practice,we found two major problems in current research of impulsivity:no commonly accepted definition of impulsivity and the lack of useful application principles in its measurement,leading to much confusion and chaos.We propose that future studies should apply new and advanced methods to deeply integrate existing definitions and measurements of impulsivity,such as measuring a large number of participants with all the major scales and behavioral tasks and then modeling the results with machine-leaning algorithms.