The CASQ-R is a shortened version of the original Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ; Seligman et al., 1984). The original instrument was designed to assess how children explain positive and negative events through three dimensions of causality; internal-external, stable-unstable, and global-specific. More depressed subjects typically associate negative events with internal, stable, and global causes, and positive events with external, unstable, and specific causes. There are 24 items, each is an event (12 positive events and 12 negative events) with two choices for response which map onto one of the three dimensions of causality stated above.