TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kemper, Christoph J.
A1  - Lutz, Johannes
A1  - Bähr, Tobias
A1  - Rüddel, Heinz
A1  - Hock, Michael
T1  - Construct validity of the anxiety sensitivity index-3 in clinical samples
JF  - Assessment
N2  - Using two clinical samples of patients, the presented studies examined the construct validity of the recently revised Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3). Confirmatory factor analyses established a clear three-factor structure that corresponds to the postulated subdivision of the construct into correlated somatic, social, and cognitive components. Participants with different primary clinical diagnoses differed from each other on the ASI-3 subscales in theoretically meaningful ways. Specifically, the ASI-3 successfully discriminated patients with anxiety disorders from patients with nonanxiety disorders. Moreover, patients with panic disorder or agoraphobia manifested more somatic concerns than patients with other anxiety disorders and patients with nonanxiety disorders. Finally, correlations of the ASI-3 scales with other measures of clinical symptoms and negative affect substantiated convergent and discriminant validity. Substantial positive correlations were found between the ASI-3 Somatic Concerns and body vigilance, between Social Concerns and fear of negative evaluation and socially inhibited behavior, and between Cognitive Concerns and depression symptoms, anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and subjective complaints. Moreover, Social Concerns correlated negatively with dominant and intrusive behavior. Results are discussed with respect to the contribution of the ASI-3 to the assessment of anxiety-related disorders.
KW  - anxiety sensitivity
KW  - Anxiety Sensitivity Index
KW  - ASI-3
KW  - construct validity
KW  - reliability
KW  - clinical sample
KW  - factor structure
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191111429389
SN  - 1073-1911
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 89
EP  - 100
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sumpf, Bernd
A1  - Maiwald, Martin
A1  - Muller, Andre
A1  - Ginolas, Arnim
A1  - Haeusler, Karl
A1  - Erbert, Goetz
A1  - Traenkle, Guenther
T1  - Reliable operation for 14 500 h of a wavelength-stabilized Diode Laser System on a Microoptical Bench at 671 nm
JF  - IEEE transactions on components, packaging and manufacturing technology
N2  - Reliability tests for wavelength-stabilized compact diode laser systems emitting at 671 nm are presented. The devices were mounted on microoptical benches with the dimensions of 13 mm x 4 mm. Reflecting Bragg gratings were used for wavelength stabilization and emission width narrowing. The reliability tests were performed at 25 degrees C and at an output power up to 10 mW per micrometer stripe width of the gain medium. Reliable operation could be demonstrated over a test time up to 14 500 h at an output power up to 1.0 W. Environmental tests using random vibrations with acceleration up to 29 g were performed without deterioration of the devices.
KW  - High-power lasers
KW  - laser resonators
KW  - Raman spectroscopy
KW  - reliability
KW  - semiconductor lasers
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2011.2171342
SN  - 2156-3950
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 116
EP  - 121
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Piscataway
ER  -