Death Anxiety Self-Assessment
Explores fears and worries related to death or dying, including how these thoughts or feelings may affect you.
What this assessment explores
Fear of death is something most people carry quietly – rarely named, often pushed aside. But for some people, that fear becomes something that genuinely gets in the way of living. This assessment explores how much anxiety around death or dying might be affecting you: how it feels, how it shapes your thinking, and whether it's changed how you move through the world. It's built on the DABBS, the first clinical measure of death anxiety to include a cut-off score and treatment-guiding subscales.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 18 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on your feelings, thoughts, and behaviours around death and dying.
The questions touch on things like:
- How intense your anxiety around death feels emotionally
- Whether thoughts about death or dying intrude on your day-to-day life
- Whether you find yourself avoiding things that remind you of death
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how death anxiety is showing up for you – and which areas might be most worth exploring.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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