Attitudes Toward Death Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Example Questions From the Test
- As joyful and remarkable
- As worthless and without meaning
- As a series of troubles, suffering, and losses
- Life is difficult, and there is nothing that can be done about it
- I try to overcome them; otherwise I will not achieve success
- Difficulties build character and make me stronger
- A) Uncertainty about the afterlife
- B) Losing this world
- C) Physical suffering before death
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Attitudes Toward Death Scale Test - Symptoms and Signs
This brief self-report measure is designed to assess individuals’ attitudes and emotional responses related to mortality. The Attitudes Toward Death Scale provides a structured snapshot of death-related concerns that may be clinically relevant in discussions of existential distress, adjustment, and coping.
The measure contains 10 items and typically takes about 2 minutes to complete. Items reflect general themes such as acceptance of death, death-related fear or avoidance, and perceived coping or support, and results are intended to inform clinical formulation and guide follow-up assessment rather than serve as a standalone diagnostic indicator.
Originally developed by H. M. Lefcourt and R. A. Neimeyer, the Attitudes Toward Death Scale may be used as a screening or discussion aid in psychotherapy, grief-related work, and other settings where death-related beliefs and anxiety are clinically salient.