The Qpass Negaffect subscales offer clinicians and researchers the option of performing in-depth analyses of depression, anxiety, and anger. Scores on these subscales (ranging from 3 to 7 items each) provide a useful profile on depression, anxiety, and anger.

The Five Depression-Scan Subscales

Dysphoria. This 4-item subscale measures how much the respondent has been bothered by crying, and feelings of sadness, emptiness, and loneliness.

Anhedonia. This 4-item subscale assesses loss of pleasure, loss of interest in other people or things, loss of libido, and having difficulty laughing or feeling amused.

Negative Cognitions. This 7-item subscale assesses negative appraisals of self (such as self-disgust, self-blame, feeling worthless and like a failure) and one’s situation (such as feeling trapped, hopeless, and helpless).

Fatigue. This 3-item subscale assesses feeling tired, loss of sleep, and loss of energy.

Unsustained effort. This 4-item subscale assesses concentration problems, indecisiveness, agitation, and psychomotor retardation. These symptoms of depression are associated with problems in sustaining mental focus and effort.

The Three Anxiety-Scan subscales

Apprehension. This 4-item subscale assesses feeling nervous, scared, worried, and “unable to relax.” Apprehension is a future-oriented mood state in which a person attempts to be constantly ready to respond to upcoming negative events.

Interpersonal Anxiety. This 4-item subscale assesses anxiety that occurs in an interpersonal context -- fears of ridicule, rejection, abandonment, and disapproval -- which play a role in avoidant, borderline, and dependent personality disorders.

Physiological Arousal. This 9-item subscale assesses physical symptoms of anxiety including autonomic symptoms of anxiety involving the respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and other systems.

The Six Anger-Scan Subscales

Indignation. This 5-item subscale assesses how upset a person has been about feeling undervalued, misjudged, disrespected, treated unfairly, and insulted.

Angry Mood. This 5-item subscale measures irritation, disappointment, frustration, angry feelings, and rage or fury.

Resentment. This 5-item subscale measures thoughts of vengeance, feeling bitterness, hate, inability to forgive or “let go,” and malevolence (desires for harm to come on someone).

Anger In. The 5-item Anger In subscale measures the degree to which anger is experienced but not expressed.

Anger Out/Verbal. The 4-item Anger Out/Verbal subscale measures the degree to which anger is expressed verbally through criticizing, name-calling, sarcasm, and making insults.

Anger Out / Physical. The 4-item Anger Out / Physical subscale measures the degree to which anger is physically expressed through door-slamming, hitting walls, throwing or kicking things, and breaking or destroying things.

For more details on the Qpass subscales, see Qpass manual