Background
Psychological Domains Measured
Measures sadness, emotional emptiness, low mood, emotional exhaustion, and reduced emotional engagement.
Measures frustration tolerance, anger, emotional reactivity, and difficulty managing emotions.
Measure insomnia, disrupted sleep patterns, nighttime restlessness, and changes in usual sleep functioning.
Measure reduced social engagement, loss of interest in activities, and emotional disengagement from relationships and hobbies.
Measure negative self-evaluation, hopelessness, guilt, and feelings of personal failure.
Measure tiredness, low motivation, exhaustion, reduced energy, and difficulty initiating tasks.
Measure attention problems, distractibility, mental focus difficulties, and academic concentration impairment.
Measure loss of pleasure, emotional numbness, and reduced ability to enjoy normally enjoyable experiences.
Measure excessive worry, tension, nervousness, panic feelings, and emotional overactivation.
Measure bodily symptoms related to anxiety including headaches, nausea, shaking, restlessness, and physical tension.
Measure suicidal thinking, self-harm thoughts, suicidal planning, and self-injurious behavior.
Procedure
Participants are asked to answer each question based on how they have been feeling recently.
For each item, adolescents select the response that best describes the frequency or severity of their emotional experiences, thoughts, behaviors, and physical symptoms.
The questionnaire is brief and designed to help identify emotional difficulties that may benefit from additional support or professional evaluation.
Participation
This assessment is intended for adolescents and young people and is designed for educational, screening, and research purposes only.
Results should not be considered a clinical diagnosis or substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric, or medical evaluation.
Individuals experiencing severe emotional distress, suicidal thoughts, self-harm behavior, hopelessness, or major impairment in daily functioning are strongly encouraged to seek immediate support from a qualified mental health professional, healthcare provider, trusted adult, or emergency service.
Scoring & Interpretation
Responses are scored on a 0–3 scale according to symptom frequency and severity.
Higher scores generally indicate stronger depressive symptoms, anxiety, emotional distress, low motivation, fatigue, concentration difficulties, and suicidal risk indicators.
The KADS-11 is commonly used as a screening tool to help identify adolescents who may benefit from additional mental health support or clinical evaluation.
Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale - 11-Item (KADS-11) Questionnaire
Below is the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale - 11-Item (KADS-11), a digitally adapted 11- items self-assessment questionnaire. This assessment does not provide a clinical diagnosis, medical determination, or substitute for professional psychological evaluation. Anonymous responses may be included in research statistics and normative datasets.
Psychometric Norms
All response data are collected anonymously through Teenage Depression Test - Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale - (KADS-11) - Interactive Version and are intended exclusively for educational, psychometric, and non-commercial research purposes. Privacy Policy | Research Statistics
Sources
- SarahJ Brooks, StanleyP Krulewicz, Stan Kutcher. The Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS).