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Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the anxiety sensitivity index-3
Steven Taylor,Michael J. Zvolensky,Brian J. Cox,Brett J. Deacon,Richard G. Heimberg,Deborah Roth Ledley,Jonathan S. Abramowitz,Robert M. Holaway,Bonifacio Sandín,Sherry H. Stewart,Meredith E. Coles,Winnie Eng,Erin Daly,Willem A. Arrindell,Martine Bouvard,Samuel Jurado Cárdenas +15 more
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The authors developed an 18-item measure, the ASI-3, which assesses the 3 factors best replicated in previous research: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Concerns and displayed generally good performance on other indices of reliability and validity, along with evidence of improved psychometric properties over the original ASI.Abstract:
Accumulating evidence suggests that anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal-related sensations) plays an important role in many clinical conditions, particularly anxiety disorders. Research has increasingly focused on how the basic dimensions of anxiety sensitivity are related to various forms of psychopathology. Such work has been hampered because the original measure--the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI)--was not designed to be multidimensional. Subsequently developed multidimensional measures have unstable factor structures or measure only a subset of the most widely replicated factors. Therefore, the authors developed, via factor analysis of responses from U.S. and Canadian nonclinical participants (n=2,361), an 18-item measure, the ASI-3, which assesses the 3 factors best replicated in previous research: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Concerns. Factorial validity of the ASI-3 was supported by confirmatory factor analyses of 6 replication samples, including nonclinical samples from the United States and Canada, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Spain (n=4,494) and a clinical sample from the United States and Canada (n=390). The ASI-3 displayed generally good performance on other indices of reliability and validity, along with evidence of improved psychometric properties over the original ASI.read more
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Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales.
Steven Taylor,Caeleigh A. Landry,Michelle M. Paluszek,Thomas A. Fergus,Dean McKay,Gordon J.G. Asmundson +5 more
TL;DR: The authors developed the 36-item COVID Stress Scales (CSS) to measure these features, as they pertain to COVID-19, to better understand and assess COVID19-related distress.
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Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.
Jonathan S. Abramowitz,Brett J. Deacon,Bunmi O. Olatunji,Michael G. Wheaton,Noah C. Berman,Diane Losardo,Kiara R. Timpano,Patrick B. McGrath,Bradley C. Riemann,Thomas Adams,Thröstur Björgvinsson,Eric A. Storch,Lisa R. Hale +12 more
TL;DR: The authors developed and evaluated a measure called the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) to address limitations of existing OC symptom measures and hold promise as a measure of OC symptoms in clinical and research settings.
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Anxiety sensitivity and the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis.
TL;DR: The results suggest that AS is central to the phenomenology of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, and causal inferences regarding the role of AS in these anxiety disorders cannot be made.
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Meta-analysis of the relations of anxiety sensitivity to the depressive and anxiety disorders.
TL;DR: Results of the path analysis indicated that AS is broadly related to these disorders but that agoraphobia, GAD, panic, and PTSD have the strongest associations and AS was more strongly related to the latent distress disorders than the fear disorders.
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COVID stress syndrome: Concept, structure, and correlates.
Steven Taylor,Caeleigh A. Landry,Michelle M. Paluszek,Thomas A. Fergus,Dean McKay,Gordon J.G. Asmundson +5 more
TL;DR: Worry about the dangerousness of COVID‐19 is the central feature of the syndrome, and latent class analysis indicated that the syndrome is quasi‐dimensional, comprising five classes differing in syndrome severity.
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