Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) Test

For readers who want to organize personal reactions to mortality, the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) Test provides a structured self-report profile rather than a single judgment about death. The result can help a respondent notice patterns and consider which attitudes deserve further reflection. As a death attitude test, it is most useful when answers are considered alongside the respondent’s current beliefs, experiences, and reasons for taking it.

What This Assessment Explores

This questionnaire is for people who want to understand how they relate to death-related thoughts and meanings. The statements address fear, acceptance, avoidance, ideas of relief, and expectations about what may follow death.

The main themes are:

• Fear and uncertainty show whether mortality, finality, or the unknown feels troubling.
• Acceptance reflects seeing death as an inevitable part of life.
• Avoidance captures efforts to distract from or suppress death-related thoughts.
• Afterlife and release beliefs describe spiritual hope or relief-oriented meanings.

For someone using this questionnaire to explore death anxiety, the result is a pattern of attitudes, not a verdict about personality. The displayed Death Attitudes scale runs from 0-100 and measures multiple aspects of attitudes toward death, including fear, acceptance, and avoidance. Its bands are Low intensity (0-33), Moderate intensity (34-66), and High intensity (67-100).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses a seven-point agreement format, from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree, with middle choices such as Somewhat disagree, Unsure or Undecided, and Somewhat agree. This self-report method asks for personal reactions rather than objective events.

Item groups cover emotional response, avoidance, existential acceptance, and religious or spiritual interpretations. This assessment of attitudes toward death combines the answers into the displayed result. The questionnaire displays a combined result, but it does not state how individual responses are weighted or whether any items are reverse-scored.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (Wong et al., 1994), which treats death attitudes as multidimensional. Jansen et al. (2019) shows that a DAP-R version can be translated and validated, but does not establish norms for this online questionnaire.

Scores may reflect current mood, personal loss, cultural or religious context, and willingness to consider difficult thoughts. They support reflection; understanding distress or functioning requires broader assessment.