Home1
Psychological tests2
Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R)3

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.

Start Online Test

Questions: 184 minutes

08:30

October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
Material has been updated

October 2, 2025
Material has been published

18,159 views

1,201 completion

974 likes

Verified by Daniel Hall

Psychologist with 25 years of experience

Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

example score

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.

Low intensity

Moderate intensity

High intensity

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.

Start Online Test

just completed the test

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.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Attitudes Toward Death, DAP-R (ATDD)

Average

71.2

Normal range

55.5 — 86.8

min.

max.

100

This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

Start Online Test

Featured On

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

The statements below concern your attitudes toward death. Please indicate whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Select the response option that best reflects the extent of your agreement or disagreement with each statement. There are no right or wrong answers.

- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Undecided
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Unsure
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Not sure
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree

These are 3 of the 18 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

Start Online Test

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Death Attitude Profile–Revised (DAP-R) Test - Symptoms and Signs

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.