Mood and Feelings Questionnaire: Parent Report (MFQParent)

Mood and Feelings Questionnaire: Parent Report (MFQParent)
Child's address
Child's address

Instructions: These questions are about how your child might have been feeling or acting recently. For each question, please check how s/he has been feeling or acting in the past two weeks.

  • If a sentence was not true about your child, check NOT TRUE.
  • If a sentence was only sometimes true, check SOMETIMES.
  • If a sentence was true about your child most of the time, check TRUE.
S/he felt miserable or unhappy
S/he didn’t enjoy anything at all
S/he felt so tired that s/he just sat around and did nothing
S/he was very restless
S/he felt s/he was no good anymore
S/he cried a lot
S/he found it hard to think properly or concentrate
S/he hated him/herself
S/he felt s/he was a bad person
S/he felt lonely
S/he thought nobody really loved him/her
S/he thought s/he could never be as good as other kids
S/he felt s/he did everything wrong

Developer Reference: Angold, A., Costello, E. J., Messer, S. C., Pickles, A., Winder, F., & Silver, D. (1995). The development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 5, 237 - 249.