Parent Report on Child
MOOD AND FEELINGS QUESTIONNAIRE: Short Version
This form is 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.
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. S/he felt miserable or unhappy.
2. S/he didn’t enjoy anything at all.
3. S/he felt so tired that s/he just sat around and did nothing.
4. S/he was very restless.
5. S/he felt s/he was no good anymore.
6. S/he cried a lot.
7. S/he found it hard to think properly or concentrate.
8. S/he hated him/herself.
9. S/he felt s/he was a bad person.
10. S/he felt lonely.
11. S/he thought nobody really loved him/her.
12. S/he thought s/he could never be as good as other kids.
13. S/he felt s/he did everything wrong.
Copyright Adrian Angold & Elizabeth J. Costello, 1987; Developmental Epidemiology Program; Duke University