Steven
Reiss wrote the original Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) in
1983 as a means of testing Reisss (1980) information processing
model of Pavlovian conditioning and expectations in fear.
In 1985 Steven Reiss and Richard J. McNally published the construct
of anxiety sensitivity. The first validating studies were
reported by Steven Reiss, Rolf A. Peterson, Richard McNally, and
Michael Telch. Richard J. McNally authored a number of early
influential articles. Steven Taylor has constructed and studied
extensively various modifications of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index
and edited a book devoted to anxiety sensitivity. Norman
Schmidt published a number of well-controlled studies, including
impressive longitudinal studies. Wendy Silverman and her
associates extended the construct of anxiety sensitivity to
children. Sherry Stewart explored the role of anxiety
sensitivity in substance abuse. In 1995 Steven Reiss expanded
the construct of sensitivity to all human motivation, and in 2008
Reiss published a comprehensive personality theory based on the
construct of sensitivities.
Today, the ASI is a widely used measure that has been translated into
many languages. The copyright to the ASI is owned by IDS
Publishing Corporation and registered with the U.S. Copyright
Office.
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