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IntroductionMaintaining a positive attitude even in difficult situations characteristic that will help students achieve success. Students need to learn to recognize the causes and effects of negative attitudes and see how those attitude affect others around them. They can then work toward changing negative attitude into healthy ones. Having a positive attitude equips students with the ability to learn and grow through their fears and frustration and interact appropriately with others.

Major Concepts Attitude Positive Attitude and Negative Attitude Components of Attitude ABC model Function of Attitude

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What is Attitude?

An attitude is a predisposition to act or feel in a certain way toward a person or thing. Attitude are generally positive or negative views of person, place, thing, or event. This is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes towards the object in every situation.

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TYPES OF ATTITUDE

Positive attitude Negative attitude

Positive AttitudeIt means to keep a set ideas, values and thoughts that tend to look for the good, to advance, to overcome problems, to find the opportunities in every situation. A positive attitude is seeing the glass half full.

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Positive Attitude

Think positively, feel confident

Use Imagination see possibilities

find opportunities

For success Believe in

dreams

Set realistic goals, Make

plans Take action

Creative productive

Fulfilling Life

Archive success and enjoy the life

EFFECT OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Negative AttitudeA negative attitude is self-defeating. Solutions to problems in life cannot be found by looking for someone or something to blame.

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Effect of Negative Attitude

Negative Attitude

Think negatively Feel

insecure

No imagination, See Problems,

find faults

No Vision, No Idea, No Success

No realistic goals, No plans,

No clear Direction

Boring Unproductive, Miserable Life

Failure and Frustrated Life

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“When one door of happiness closes, Another opens; but often we look so long At closed door that we do not see that one which has been opened for us.”

(Helen Keller)

Components of Attitude (ABC Model)

Affective component Behavioral intention Cognitive component

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Affective component

Feeling (related to heart).

Based on physiological nervous reaction to

an object. Or situation or person.

This part of attitude is related to the statement which affects another person.

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Behavioral intention An observable reaction (related to

movement).

E.g. to purchase a particular brand.The behavioral component refers to that part of attitude which reflects the intension of a person in short run or in long run.

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Cognitive component Beliefs(related to mind)

What a person believes to be true about an

idea, event, activity or object.

It refers to that part of attitude which is related to a person’s thought, for example, “He says smoking is injurious to health”. Such type of idea of a person is called cognitive component of attitude.

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Functions of Attitude

1.Adjustment - Attitude help persons adjust to situation. -People seek out group acceptance in order to gain

praise or rewards and avoid punishment.

2.Ego defensive -Attitude are formed to protect the ‘ego’.

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Functions of Attitude

3.Value expressive - Person’s attitude are often a reflection of their

values.

4.Knowledge -Attitude help person to make decisions.

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“I can’t change the direction of the wind,but I can adjust my sails to always reach

My destination.”(Jimmy Dean)

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