Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (and Short MFQ).
MFQ / SMFQ
- What it measures
- Depressive symptoms in children, adolescents, and young adults (affective and cognitive depression items)
- Length and format
- 33 (MFQ); 13 (SMFQ). 3-point (not true / sometimes true / true) over the past two weeks (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple languages (widely used internationally, e.g., New Zealand validations)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Angold, A., et al. (1995). Development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 5, 237-249. (https://devepi.duhs.duke.edu)
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