The Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ) is a 77-item self-report questionnaire that assesses depressive, anxious, and mixed symptomatology.

Three scales measure General Distress:

• depressive symptoms (12 items)

• anxious symptoms (11 items)

• mixed symptoms (15 items)

There are also anxiety-specific (Anxious Arousal, 17 items) and depression-specific scales (Anhedonic Depression, 22 items). Higher scores reflect greater levels of symptomatology (Watson et al., 1995). For the current analysis, we used the Anxious Symptoms scale.