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Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R)

Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) Test

Understand your attitudes toward death in 4 minutes, including fear, acceptance, and spiritual beliefs. Quick results support therapy, grief work, anxiety care, and research.

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October 2, 2025

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54/100

Death Attitudes (DA)

Measures the overall intensity and configuration of a person’s attitudes toward death, including fear, acceptance, and avoidance-related tendencies.

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0 – 33: Low intensity | 34 – 66: Moderate intensity | 67 – 100: High intensity

A score of 54 falls in the Moderate intensity range, suggesting a balanced but noticeable engagement with death-related themes rather than minimal or strongly pronounced reactions.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Anxiety and panic sufferers

41%OF USERS

People who feel persistent death anxiety or panic use it to clarify what exactly triggers fear and what kind of acceptance feels possible.

Grief and loss processing

34%OF USERS

Those coping with bereavement take it to understand how their beliefs about death influence sadness, anger, guilt, and recovery.

Therapy and counseling clients

25%OF USERS

Clients in psychotherapy or counseling use it to explore existential themes, meaning, spirituality, and resilience during life changes.

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Attitudes Toward Death, DAP-R (ATDD)

Average

71.2

Normal range

55.5 — 86.8

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100

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What does this questionnaire measure?

It measures five attitudes toward death: fear or anxiety, religious or spiritual beliefs about an afterlife, acceptance of death as a natural part of life, viewing death as relief from suffering, and belief in the soul’s immortality.

How long does it take and how many items are included?

It typically takes about 4 minutes to complete. It includes 18 statements.

How should responses be given?

Each statement should be rated based on the level of agreement. Responses should reflect current beliefs and feelings rather than what seems socially expected.

How are results interpreted?

Scores are reported separately for each attitude dimension; there is no single overall score. Higher scores indicate stronger endorsement of that attitude.

What are common uses for this questionnaire?

It is used to screen death-related anxiety, support work on grief and existential concerns, and inform counseling or research on worldview and coping. Results should be interpreted in context with other clinical or assessment information.

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Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) Test

existential psychology attitude toward death

Attitudes toward mortality can provide clinically relevant information about meaning-making, anxiety, and coping. The Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) is a brief self-report measure designed to assess multiple dimensions of individuals’ beliefs and feelings about death.

Developed by Gary T. Reker, it consists of 18 items and typically takes about 4 minutes to complete. Items are rated in response to statements reflecting perspectives such as death-related fear, acceptance, and views of death as relief from suffering.

The Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) may be used in clinical and research settings to support assessment of existential concerns, bereavement-related themes, and death-related anxiety, with results interpreted in the context of the broader clinical picture.

Author: Gary T. Reker, paul-t-p-wong

Literature: Neimeyer, R. A. Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application. Taylor & Francis. 1994.; Kastenbaum, R. Death, society, and human experience. Pearson. 2004.; Bonanno, G. A. The other side of sadness: What the new science of bereavement tells us about life after loss. Basic Books. 2009.; Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. Death-Attitude Profile-Revised: A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death. In Neimeyer, R. A. (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application. Taylor & Francis. 1994.

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