Korean Anxiety Sensitivity Index—Revised: its factor structure, reliability, and validity in clinical and nonclinical samples

✍ Scribed by Young-Jin Lim; Bum-Hee Yu; Ji-Hae Kim

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1091-4269
• DOI: 10.1002/da.20210

✦ Synopsis

The factor structure and convergent and discriminant validity of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised (ASI-R) were examined in a community sample, a student sample, and patients with panic disorder in Korea. Results from a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) comparing our data to factor solutions commonly reported as representative of European American populations indicated a poor fit. A subsequent exploratory factor analysis (EFA) indicated that a four-factor solution provided the best fit. Correlations between the ASI-R and anxiety measures were moderately high, providing evidence of convergent validity. Implications for assessment with Koreans are discussed. Depression and Anxiety 24:331-341, 2007.