Its author, Anthony Goudie, explains in a post for Bloom, a magazine and website about disabilities, «They tend to have a lot of anxiety and emotional problems, in
terms of feeling unhappy, afraid or nervous of certain situations.
Children are asked to rate each
of the 13 items on a 3 - point scale ranging from 0 to 2 in
terms of intensity
of depressive symptoms during the past 2 weeks (e.g., «I
felt miserable or
unhappy», «I did everything wrong»).