CDS
Child Depression Questionnaire
M. Lang and M. Tisher
I feel happy most of the time.
Many times I feel unhappy at school.
I often think that no one cares about me.
I often think that I am worth little.
I often wake up during the night.
I often think that I make my mother or my father look bad.
I believe that one suffers a lot in life.
I am proud of most of the things I do.
I always believe that the next day will be better.
Sometimes I wish I were already dead.
I often feel lonely.
12. I often feel discontent with myself.
I feel more tired than most of the kids I know.
Sometimes I think that my mother/father does or says things that make me think that I have done
something terrible.
I get sad when someone gets angry with me.
16. Muchas veces mi madre/padre me hace sentir que las cosas que hago son muy buenas.
17. I always look forward to doing many things when I am at school.
18. Being at school, many times I feel like crying.
I often find it difficult to show how miserable I feel inside.
I hate the way I look or behave.
Most of the time I don't feel like doing anything.
22. Sometimes I worry that what I do might bother or upset my mother/father.
23. Cuando me enfado mucho casi siempre termino llorando.
24. It's my family, we have a lot of fun together.
I have fun with the things I do.
26. I often feel miserable, sad, or unhappy.
27. Many times I feel lonely and lost in school.
28. I often hate myself.
29. Many times I feel like not getting up in the mornings.
30. I often think that I deserve to be punished.
I often feel unhappy because of my school assignments.
32. When someone gets angry with me, I get angry with them.
I almost always have a good time at school.
Sometimes I think that life is not worth living.
Most of the time I think no one understands me.
I often feel ashamed of myself.
Many times I feel dead inside.
Sometimes I am worried because I do not love my mother/father as I should.
39. I often worry about my mother's/father's health.
I believe my mother/father is very proud of me.
I am a very happy person.
42. When I am away from home I feel very unhappy.
No one knows how miserable I feel inside.
Sometimes I wonder if deep down I am a very bad person.
45. Being at school, I feel tired almost all the time.
I believe that others love me, even though I don't deserve it.
47. Sometimes I dream that I have an accident or that I die.
I think it's not bad to get angry.
I think I have a good presence and I'm attractive.
Sometimes I don't know why I feel like crying.
Sometimes I think that I am not useful to anyone.
52. When I fail in school, I think I am worth nothing.
I often imagine that I hurt myself or that I die.
Sometimes I think I do things that make my mother/father sick.
Many times I feel bad because I can't do the things I want.
I sleep like a log and never wake up during the night.
Most of the things I try to do turn out well.
I believe my life is unfortunate.
59. When I'm away from home, I feel empty.
Most of the time I feel that I am not as good as I want to be.
Sometimes I feel bad because I do not love and listen to my mother/father as they deserve.
I often think that I am not going to get anywhere.
I have many friends.
I spend my time doing very interesting things with my father/mother.
Many people care a lot about me.
Sometimes I think that inside me there are two people pushing me in different directions.