Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Davao del Sur Division
MATANAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion Matanao, Davao del Sur
Instruction: Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following
Statements about our mental health by selecting one of the options below.
Scale: Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disgree Strongly disagree
5 4 3 2 1
Questions: 5 4 3 2 1
I.Life Satisfaction
As I grow older, things seem
better than I thought they would
be
I have gotten more of the breaks
in life than most of the
people I know
This is the dreariest time of my life
I am just as happy as when I was
younger
My life could be happier than it is
now
These are the best years of my
life
Most of the things I do are boring
or monotonous
I expect some interesting and
pleasant things to happen to
me in the future.
The things I do are as interesting
to me as they ever were
I feel old and somewhat tired
Feeling nervous, anxious or on
the edge
Becoming easily annoyed or
irritable
Being so restless that it is hard to
sit still
Feeling afraid as if something
awful might happen
II.Depression
I felt downhearted and blue
I felt sad and depressed
I could see nothing in the future to
be hopeful about
I felt that I had nothing to look
forward to
I felt that life was meaningless
I felt that life wasn’t worthwhile
I felt I was pretty worthless
I felt I wasn’t worth much as a
person
I felt that I had lost interest in just
about everything
I was unable to become
enthusiastic about anything
I couldn’t seem to experience any
positive feeling at all
I couldn’t seem to get any
enjoyment out of the things I did
I just couldn’t seem to get going
I found it extremely difficult to
work up the initiative to do things
III.Stress
I found it hard to wind down
I found it hard to calm down after
something upset me
I found it difficult to relax
I felt that I was using a lot of
nervous energy
I was in a state of nervous tension
I found myself getting upset rather
easily
I found myself getting upset by
quite trivial things
I found myself getting agitated
I tended to over-react to situations
I found that I was very irritable
I found it difficult to tolerate
interruptions to what I was doing