Attitude
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Measuring motivational characteristics of courses: applying Keller's instructional materials motivation survey to a web-based course.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: The Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) purports to assess the motivational characteristics of instructional materials or courses using the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) model of motivation. The IMMS ... Read more...

A survey of adolescent experiences of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Manchester study.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: There is little information on girls' experiences of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in the prevention of cervical cancer. We investigated the views of adolescent girls who had been offered the vaccine as part of a feasibility ... Read more...

Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Few studies have explored both food behaviour and physical activity in an environmental context. Most research in this area has focused on adults; the aim of the present study was to describe perceptions of the environment, diet, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Attitude'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Measuring motivational characteristics of courses: applying Keller's instructional materials motivation survey to a web-based course. 30 Oct 2009
• A survey of adolescent experiences of human papillomavirus vaccination in the Manchester study. 4 Oct 2009
• Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China. 29 Sep 2009
• Pediatric biobanks: approaching informed consent for continuing research after children grow up. 29 Sep 2009
• Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation. 26 Sep 2009
• Attitudes and action: public opinion and the occurrence of international terrorism. 16 Sep 2009
• We must face the threats. 14 Sep 2009
• A piece of my mind. Driving thoughts. 14 Sep 2009
• Survey of Japanese infertile couples' attitudes toward surrogacy. 30 Aug 2009
• Exploring whether student nurses report poor practice they have witnessed on placements. 30 Aug 2009
• ["New reference to development of the reflexive attitude of the nurse"] 30 Aug 2009
• [The position of holter monitoring and electrocardiography, between emotion and resignation] 30 Aug 2009
• Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing. 30 Aug 2009
• Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Using postgraduate students' evaluations of research experience to benchmark departments and faculties: issues and challenges. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for the validity of the Children's Attraction to Physical Activity questionnaire (CAPA) with young children. 30 Aug 2009
• Displaying employee testimonials on recruitment web sites: effects of communication media, employee race, and job seeker race on organizational attraction and information credibility. 30 Aug 2009
• Employee customer orientation in context: how the environment moderates the influence of customer orientation on performance outcomes. 30 Aug 2009
• Affective influences in person-environment fit theory: exploring the role of affect as both cause and outcome of P-E fit. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Attitude'

Definition: An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.

Descriptor UI: D001290

Alternative terms: Attitude; Attitudes;

Related Mesh Headings: Public Opinion; Set (Psychology); Intention;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.100;

History Note: 65(64); was see under BEHAVIOR 1963-64