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Research Instrument Mental Health & Mood // DASSY

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales for Youth

21-item scale measuring depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms in adolescents and children, adapted from the adult DASS. Respondents rate how true each statement was for them during the past week.

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Purpose

Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.

Details

Administration
Self-Administered
Intended Use
Research
Limitations: Imported from the OpenScales open item-bank project. This specific digital implementation has not been independently clinically validated by PsiQ — scores are for self-reflection, research, and educational purposes only, and are not a diagnosis.

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Citation: Szabo, M., & Lovibond, P. F. (2022). Development and psychometric properties of the DASS-Youth (DASS-Y): An extension of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) to adolescents and children. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.766890 This is not a diagnostic tool. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of self-harm, please contact a licensed mental health professional or a crisis helpline in your country immediately. Low/Moderate/High bands below reflect this test's own possible score range only (simple thirds) — they are NOT a clinical threshold or population norm. No such cutoff has been published for this instrument.

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