title: Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire anxiety items in an adult british clinical sample: one scale or two?
abstract: In seeking to establish British clinical normative data for the two anxiety scales (anxious symptoms and anxious arousal) of the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ), the responses of 237 British National Health Service outpatients were examined. Factor analyses (exploratory and confirmatory) failed to confirm the expected structure. Data were presented and discussed, considering the 28 anxiety item pool in terms of being either two highly correlated scales of somatic anxiety versus psychological anxiety, or as a single general anxiety scale. As neither of these outcomes accorded with the test constructors' assumptions, it was concluded that the MASQ is not a suitable measure for assessing the tripartite model of adverse mood states in British clinical samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Therapies, The Old Chapel, Bootham Park, York, UK. alanbedford65@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bedford
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lukic
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Allerhand
authors.forename: Ian J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Deary
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001143:Arousal; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom