This wiki page summarizes the questionnaires administered during CATSLife Wave 1. Questionnaires were administered in 2 parts.

Part 1 includes education and occupation, activities, interests, life events, well-being, and family relationships (etc.)

Part 2 includes anxiety, depression, worry, rumination, and executive function

The Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (MASQ; Watson & Clark, 1991) is a measure used to distinguish between symptoms of depression and anxiety. The original scale includes 90 self-report items, although shorter versions have been adapted (Wardenaar et al., 2010), which correspond to five subscales: 1) General Distress: Mixed Symptoms (i.e. GD: Mixed; Watson et al., 1995) to evaluate symptoms non-specific to depression or anxiety; 2) General Distress: Anxious Symptoms (i.e. GD: Anxiety); 3) General Distress: Depressive Symptoms (i.e. GD: Depression); 4) Anxious Arousal, or symptoms of somatic arousal specific to anxiety; and 5) Anhedonic Depression (i.e. combination of Loss of Interest and Positive Affect items), or reductions in positive affect that are specific to depression. Validation studies applying factor analysis to these items have yielded three factors: General Distress, Positive Affect (i.e., Anhedonic Depression), and Anxious Arousal (Keogh & Reidy, 2000; Wardenaar et al., 2010). The MASQ’s Anxious Arousal and Anhedonic Depression subscales have high convergent and discriminant validity, as well as high scale reliabilities (Cronbach’s alphas: Anxious Arousal = .88; Anhedonic Depression = .93; GD: Anxiety = .85; and GD: Depression = .92; Watson et al., 1995).

A 62 item version was used for CATSLife.

Associated Papers:

Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (1991). The mood and anxiety symptom questionnaire (MASQ). Unpublished manuscript, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Clark LA, Watson D. Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1991;100:316–336.

Watson, D., Weber, K., Assenheimer, J. S., Clark, L. A., Strauss, M. E., & McCormick, R. A. (1995). Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(1), 3. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.104.1.3

Keogh, E., & Reidy, J. (2000). Exploring the factor structure of the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ). Journal of Personality Assessment, 74(1), 106-125. doi: 10.1207/S15327752JPA740108