Mental Health

Assessments of emotional distress and symptoms of mental health disorders.

Anger

• Clinical Anger Scale, CAS. By Snell et al., 1995.

Anxiety

• Environmental Worry. By Bowler & Schwarzer, 1991. Anxiety over environmental threats, such as pollution.
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire, GAD-7. By Spitzer et al., 2006.
• Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, HAM-A. By Hamilton, 1959.
• State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety STICSA. Ree et al. 2008, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy also has the items.
• Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale SAS. Zung 1971, Psychosomatics.

Bipolar Depression

• Bipolar Depression Rating Scale (BDRS). To be administered in an interview.
• Bipolar Inventory of Signs and Symptoms Scale, BISS.

Boredom

• Boredom Proneness Scale BP. Farmer & Sundberg, 1986, Journal of Personality Assessment.
• Multidimensional State Boredom Scale MSBS. Fahlman et al. 2013, Assessment. Total score plus subscales of Disengagement, High arousal, Inattention, Low arousal, Time perception.
• Multidimensional State Boredom Scale MSBS Italian. Craparo et al. 2017, Clinical Neuropsychiatry. Italian translation.
• Boredom Proneness Scale BPS. Vodanovich & Kass 1990, Journal of Personality Assessment.
• Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form BPS-SF. Struk et al., 2017, Assessment. 8-item version of the BPS.
• Review of boredom measures. Vodanovich & Watt 2016, The Journal of Psychology.

Burnout

• Oldenburg Burnout Inventory.Comes in multiple languages.
• Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure, SMBM.

Depression

• Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). By Radloff (1977).
  • French Language CES-D.
  • German Language CES-D.
  • Spanish Language CES-D.
  • Miscellaneous Language Versions of CES-D.
• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).Contains the scale, scoring, and original Beck et al., 1961 paper.
• Patient Health Questionnaire-9 PHQ-9. Kroenke et al. 2001, Journal of General Internal Medicine.
• Patient Health Questionnaire-8 PHQ-8. Kroenke et al. 2009, Journal of Affective Disorders.
• Resources about measurement of depression. Includes the BDI and CES-D.
• Occupational Depression Inventory ODI. Measure of job-ascribed depressive symptoms.
• Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale.

Eating Disorder (see also section on behavior)

• Disordered Eating Attitude Scale DEAS. By Alvarenga et al., 2010. Information about its English translation from the original Portuguese can be found here.
• Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale, EDDS. By Stice et al., 2000. Scoring is here. Psychometric properties and clinical cut-off scores are here. Additional measures by Eric Stice are here.
• See also Guilt and Shame section.

General Mental Health

• General Health Questionnaire-12 GHQ-12. Goldberg & Williams 1988, A user’s guide to the General Health Questionnaire. NFER-Nelson.
• MOS Mental Health Inventory. Developed by Rand Corporation.

Guilt and Shame

• Adapted Shame and Guilt Scale ASGS. Harder & Zalma 1990, Journal of Personality Assessment. Refined the original scale by Hoblitzelle.
• Body-Focused Shame and Guilt Scale BF-SGS. Weingarden et al. 2016, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.
• External and Internal Shame Scale EISS. Ferreira et al. 2020, Current Psychology.
• Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale GASP. Cohen et al. 2011, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Harder Personal Feels Questionnaire PFQ2. Harder & Zalma 1990, Journal of Personality Assessment. Expanded from the original.
• Offence-Related Shame and Guilt Scale ORSGS. Wright and Gudjonsson 2007, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. Specific for people who have committed crimes.
• Other as Shamer Scale OAS. Matos et al., 2015, Personality and Individual Differences.
• State Shame and Guilt Scale SSGS. Marschall 1996, MA Thesis.
• Test of Self-Conscious Affect-Adolescent TOSCA-A. In Watson et al., 2016, Frontiers in Psychology.
• Weight and Body -Related Shame and Guilt Scale, WEB-SG. Conradt et al. 2007, Journal of Personality Assessment.

Loneliness

• De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale Short Form. De Jong Gierveld & Van Tilburg 2006, Research on Aging. Subscales of emotional and social loneliness.
• UCLA Loneliness Scale. Russell 1996, Journal of Personality Assessment.

Negative Emotions

• Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales, DASS-21. Beaufort et al., 2017 European Addiction Research.
• General Affective Well-Being Scale, GAWS. Spector 2021.
• PANAS-X Manual by Watson & Clark. Measures both positive and negative emotions. Can be used for state or trait emotions. Expanded version of the original PANAS that can be found here.
• Scale of Positive and Negative Experience SPANE. Diener et al. 2009, Social Indicators Research. Scales of positive and negative emotional experience over a specified time (e.g., past month). Can be found in Ed Diener’s website in more than a dozen languages.

Neurodiversity

See section on Disabilities and Neurodiversity.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Habit, Reward, and Fear Scale HRFS. Ferreira et al. 2020, CNS spectrums.
• Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Y-BOCS. Goodman, et al. 1989, Archives of General Psychiatry.

Suicide

• Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit. From National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH.
• Columbia Suicide Severity Scale. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA.
• Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire,Revised SBQ-R. By Osman et al.
• Suicidal Ideation Risk Assessment. Guide from Minnesota Department of Health.

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