TABLE 2.

The 40 draft DASS-Y items and their adult DASS counterparts.

DEPRESSION
DRAFT DASS-Y items	ADULT DASS SCALE
Anhedonia:
Nothing was fun at all.	I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all.
I did not enjoy anything.	I couldn’t seem to get any enjoyment out of the things I did.
Dysphoria:
I felt down and depressed.	I felt down-hearted and blue.
I could not stop feeling sad.	I felt sad and depressed.
Hopelessness:
There was nothing nice I could look forward to.	I felt that I had nothing to look forward to.
It seemed like nothing would ever work out for me.	I could see nothing in the future to be hopeful about.
Devaluation of life:
I hated my life.	I felt that life was meaningless.
I felt that life was terrible.	I felt that life wasn’t worthwhile.
Self-deprecation:
I felt worthless.	I felt I was pretty worthless.
I felt like I was no good.	I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person.
I hated myself.
Lack of interest/involvement:
I did not feel excited about anything.	I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything.
I did not feel like doing anything, not even the things I used to enjoy.	I felt that I had lost interest in just about everything.
Inertia:
–	I just couldn’t seem to get going.
–	I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things.
ANXIETY
DASS-Y DRAFT items	ADULT DASS SCALE
Autonomic arousal:
I could feel my heart beating really fast, even though I hadn’t done any hard exercise.	I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (e.g., sense of heart rate increase, heart missing a beat).
My hands got sweaty.	I perspired noticeably (e.g., hands sweaty) in the absence of high temperatures or physical exertion.
My mouth felt dry.	I was aware of dryness of my mouth.
I had trouble breathing (e.g., fast breathing), even when I wasn’t exercising and I was not sick.	I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g., excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of physical exertion).
I felt like there was a lump in my throat.	I had difficulty in swallowing.
Skeletal musculature effects:
My hands felt shaky.	I had a feeling of shakiness (e.g., legs going to give way).
–	I experienced trembling (e.g., in the hands).
Situational anxiety:
I was afraid of making a fool of myself.	I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself.
Some situations made me feel so scared that I was relieved when they ended.	I found myself in situations which made me so anxious I was most relieved when they ended.
I felt so nervous that I just wanted to run away.	I feared that I would be “thrown” by some trivial but unfamiliar task.
Subjective experience of anxious affect:
I felt like I was about to panic.	I felt I was close to panic.
I felt terrified.	I felt terrified.
I felt scared for no good reason.	I felt scared without any good reason.
I felt dizzy, like I was about to faint.	I had a feeling of faintness
I was secretly afraid.
STRESS
DASS-Y DRAFT items	ADULT DASS SCALE
Difficulty relaxing:
I couldn’t calm down once I was stressed.	I found it hard to calm down after something upset me.
I found it difficult to relax.	I found it difficult to relax.
I could not stop thinking about all the things I had to do.	I found it hard to wind down.
Easily upset/agitated:
I got upset easily.	I found myself getting upset rather easily.
I got upset about little things.	I found myself getting upset by quite trivial things.
I was stressing about lots of things.	I found myself getting agitated.
Nervous arousal:
–	I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy.
I felt tense and uptight.	I was in a state of nervous tension.
Irritable/over-reactive:
I found myself over-reacting to situations.	I tended to over-react to situations.
I was easily irritated.	I found that I was very irritable.
I was easily annoyed.	I felt that I was rather touchy.
Impatience
I hated it when I had to stop doing what I was doing.	I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what I was doing.
I found it frustrating when I had to wait for anything (e.g., for a lift or a bus).	I found myself getting impatient when I was delayed in any way (e.g., lifts, traffic lights, being kept waiting).
I got annoyed when people interrupted me.	I found it difficult to tolerate interruptions to what I was doing.