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among us high school students alcohol consumption cigarette smoking associated numerous concurrent future harms tested whether multiple elementary school personality dispositions behave impulsively predict addictive behaviors invariably across gender race longitudinal design involved testing whether individual differences impulsigenic traits elementary school predicted drinking smoking 4 years later high school 23 public schools kentucky usa total 1897 youth mean age 1033 wave 1 drawn urban rural suburban backgrounds drinking smoking frequency assessed singleitem questions key predictors impulsigenic traits measured uppsp child version impulsive behavior scale important covariates included pubertal status depression negative affect positive affect assessed selfreport three personality traits measured 5th grade representing different dispositions engage impulsive behavior predicted drinking smoking 9th grade beyond risk factors 5th grade drinking smoking specifically urgency b 010 013 sensationseeking b 013 007 low conscientiousness b 014 011 uniquely predicted high school drinking smoking respectively evidence trait predicted either outcome strongly traits evidence predictive results varied gender race three personality traits urgency sensationseeking low conscientiousness measured 11yearold children predict childrens drinking smoking behavior individually age 15 effects invariant across gender race