___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Anxiety Sensitivity Index - 3 (ASI-3) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 01-10-2024 last updated: 01-10-2024 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 01-10-2024 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements Millisecond's computerized version of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index- 3 (ASI-3) by Taylor et al (2007), a revised version of the original Anxiety Index (ASI, Reiss et al, 1986) with ratings on three distinct subscales: Physical Concerns, Cognitive Concerns and Social Concerns. Reference: ASI: Reiss, S., Peterson, R. A., Gursky, D. M., & McNally, R. J. (1986). Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 24(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(86)90143-9 ASI-3: Taylor, S., Zvolensky, M. J., Cox, B. J., Deacon, B., Heimberg, R. G., Ledley, D. R., Abramowitz, J. S., Holaway, R. M., Sandin, B., Stewart, S. H., Coles, M., Eng, W., Daly, E. S., Arrindell, W. A., Bouvard, M., & Cardenas, S. J. (2007). Robust Dimensions of Anxiety Sensitivity: Development and Initial Validation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3. Psychological Assessment, 19(2), 176–188. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.19.2.176 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ self-report measure consisting of 18 5-point Likert Scale questions on three subscales ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 1.5 minute to complete __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'asi3.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: 0 (very little) - 4 (very much) no reversed coded questions q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'asi3_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectId: assigned subject id number groupId: assigned group id number sessionId: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) asi3Total: the sum of all individual scores (range: 0-64) The higher the score the higher Anxiety Sensitivity asi3PC: Physical Concerns = 3,4,7,8,12,15 (range: 0-24) asi3CC: Cognitive Concerns = 2,5,10,14,16,18 (range: 0-24) asi3SC: Social Concerns = 1,6,9,11,13,17(range: 0-24) + individual responses