Child Self-Report
MOOD AND FEELINGS QUESTIONNAIRE: Long Version
This form is 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.
Score the MFQ as follows:
NOT TRUE = 0
SOMETIMES = 1
TRUE = 2
NOT SOME
To code, please use a checkmark () for each statement. TRUE
TRUE TIMES
1. I felt miserable or unhappy.
2. I didn’t enjoy anything at all.
3. I was less hungry than usual.
4. I ate more than usual.
5. I felt so tired I just sat around and did nothing.
6. I was moving and walking more slowly than usual.
7. I was very restless.
8. I felt I was no good anymore.
9. I blamed myself for things that weren’t my fault.
10. It was hard for me to make up my mind.
11. I felt grumpy and cross with my parents.
12. I felt like talking less than usual.
13. I was talking more slowly than usual.
14. I cried a lot.
Child Self-Report
15. I thought there was nothing good for me in the future.
16. I thought that life wasn’t worth living.
17. I thought about death or dying.
18. I thought my family would be better off without me.
19. I thought about killing myself.
20. I didn’t want to see my friends.
21. I found it hard to think properly or concentrate.
22. I thought bad things would happen to me.
23. I hated myself.
24. I felt I was a bad person.
25. I thought I looked ugly.
26. I worried about aches and pains.
27. I felt lonely.
28. I thought nobody really loved me.
29. I didn’t have any fun in school.
30. I thought I could never be as good as other kids.
31. I did everything wrong.
32. I didn’t sleep as well as I usually sleep.
33. I slept a lot more than usual.
Copyright Adrian Angold & Elizabeth J. Costello, 1987; Developmental Epidemiology Program; Duke University
