Mood and Feelings Questionnaire-Self Report (MFQ-Self)

Mood and Feelings Questionnaire-Self Report (MFQ-Self)
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Instructions: These questions are about how you might have been feeling or acting recently. For each question, please
check how you have been feeling or acting in the past two weeks.

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