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 impulsivity

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 Unpublished manuscript, University of Iowa, Iowa City.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

“The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) is a 30 item self-report instrument designed to assess the personality/behavioral construct of impulsiveness. The BIS is arguably the most commonly administered self-report measure for the assessment of impulsiveness in both research and clinical settings. Consistent with previous research, the BIS-11 is highly correlated with similar self-report measures (convergent validity) but not significantly correlated with behavioral measures of impulsiveness (Barratt & Patton, 1983; Lane et al., 2003).”

Associated Papers:

Patton J.H., Stanford, M.S., & Barratt, E.S. (1995). Factor structure of the Barratt impulsiveness scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51, 768-774. PubMed ID: 8778124

Stanford, M. S., Mathias, C.W., Dougherty, D. M., Lake, S. L., Anderson, N. E., Patton J.H. (2009). Fifty years of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale: An update and review. Personality and Individual Differences. 47(5), 385–395. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.008

“The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is a 16-item questionnaire used to measure worrying in individuals. “Correlations between the PSWQ and measures of anxiety, depression, and emotional control supported the convergent and discriminant validity of the measure” (Brown et al., 1992).

Associated Papers:

Brown, T. A., Antony, M. M., Barlow, D. H. (1992). Psychometric properties of the Penn state worry questionnaire in a clinical anxiety disorders sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 30(1), 33-37. doi:10.1016/0005-7967(92)90093-V. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/000579679290093V

Meyer, T.J., Miller, M.L., Metzger, R.L., & Borkovec, T.D. (1990). Development and Validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.

The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a 44-item inventory that measures an individual on the Big Five Factors (dimensions) of personality (Goldberg, 1993). Each of the factors is then further divided into personality facets. Five subscales are included : Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness

Associated Papers:

John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big-Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research (Vol. 2, pp. 102–138). New York: Guilford Press

The Symptom Checklist is an instrument consisting of the eighteen DSM-IV-TR criteria. Six of the eighteen questions were found to be the most predictive of symptoms consistent with ADHD. These six questions are the basis for the ASRS v1.1 Screener and are also Part A of the Symptom Checklist. Part B of the Symptom Checklist contains the remaining twelve questions.

Associated Papers:

Kessler RC, Adler L, Ames M, Demler O, Faraone S, Hiripi E, Howes MJ, Jin R, Secnik K, Spencer T, Ustün TB, Walters EE. The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population. Psychological Medicine. 2005a;35(02):245–256. doi: 10.1017/S0033291704002892.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/84c3/df915901fa2eefcfcefed952067f88a26403.pdf https://add.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/adhd-questionnaire-ASRS111.pdf

The Ruminative Response Scale (RRS) is a 22 item self-report measure of rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema, Morrow, 1991). The shorter 10 item RRS was used for this study (Treynor, Gonzales, Nolen-Hoeksema, 2003). This 10 item version has subscales to measure reflection and brooding.

Associated Papers:

Treynor, W., Gonzales, R., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2003). Rumination reconsidered: A psychometric analysis. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 247-259.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Morrow J. (1991). A prospective study of depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a natural disaster: The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(1), 115-121.