E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The development and initial psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Anxiety Sensitivity Inventory (K-ASI) and the Agoraphobic Cognition Questionnaire and Body Sensation Questionnaire(K-ACQ & K-BSQ), a companion masure, were described in this study. The ASI and the ACQ and BSQ were translated into Korean and administered to 92 psychiatric outpatients, 60 normal controls, and 209 college students to evaluate their psychometric properties. The results showed that the K-ASI, K-ACQ and K-BSQ have high concurrent validity, internal consistency and temporal stability. But in the K-ASI and K-BSQ, the discriminant validities between clinical patient groups were insufficient. The K-ASI, K-ACQ and K-BSQ were found to have single factor structure. The factor was named "fear of body sensation" in K-ASI, "fear of loss of control" in K-ACQ, and "fear of abnormal cardiopulmonary function and body sensation" in K-BSQ. Finally, some limitations of this study and the implications for further study are discussed.