Attitude Personality development
- 1. ATTITUDE D.Sudha III B.Sc. Chemistry St. John’s College
- 2. DEFINITION: It is defined as “the persistent tendency of a person to feel and behave in a particular way towards some objects, events, or persons”. It is a view point , a mind set or a way of valuing life. “All birds find shelter during a rain, but EAGLE avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but ATTITUDE makes the difference”. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- 3. COMPONENTS OF ATTITUDE • Belief about something COGNITIVE • An intention to behave in a particular way towards something or someone BEHAVIOURAL AFFECTIVE • Feeling segment of something
- 4. FORMATION OF ATTITUDE EXPERIENCE: By direct contact with objects, human beings develop attitude. With work experience, people learn attitudes. Loyalty, commitments and performance are influenced by the attitude of a person. FORMATION OF ATTITUDE Experience Association Family Society “Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of life”
- 5. ASSOCIATION: Association influence the attitude of a person. Depending upon the degree of association with the groups like religion, caste, educational background, age, person changes attitude. FAMILY: The family members – parents, brothers, sisters etc., influence the attitude of a person. Parental attitudes towards religion, occupations, politics are the deciding factors of attitude.
- 6. SOCIETY: The Social factors determine the formation of attitude of an individual. The organization structure of the society and the cultural climate also influence the attitude. TYPES OF ATTITUDE ATTITUDE Positive Attitude Negative Attitude
- 7. POSITIVE ATTITUDE It is a mental attitude that sees good and the accomplishments in your life, rather than the negative and failures. It is a mindset that helps you see and recognize opportunities. It means positive thinking. It is optimism and maintaining a positive mindset. “ Positive Attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results”. - Wade Boggs
- 8. NEGATIVE ATTITUDE It is a feeling or approach which is not cooperative , constructive or optimistic. It affect the quality of our life. It keep us to think negative thoughts and failures. “Negative Attitude is like a flat tire. We can’t go anywhere until we change it”
- 9. POSITIVE ATTITUDE NEGATIVE ATTITUDE It helps to see possibilities and opportunities in life. It helps to see only failures and threats in life. Person with positive attitude solve problems in life very easily. Negative attitude people always create problems and they struggle to solve problems. It gives confidence to achieve goals. It create more fear in achieving something. Optimistic Pessimistic Gives you hope Makes you worry It helps to respect other’s opinions and ideas about something. It always make us to complain others ideas and opinions. Positive attitude people understand other’s worries and pains. Negative People never understand other’s worries.
- 10. DEVELOP POSITIVE ATTITUDE Associate yourself with people having Positive Attitude. Be optimistic and confidence. Have faith in yourself. Improve your Self-Esteem. Keep yourself Happy always. Understand the Futility of Worries. Read books that inspire you. Always look at the brighter side of life. Keep yourself engaged in physical and mental activities. Control your thoughts. Stop letting other people’s negative attitude s influence yours. Take some time to write strong positive affirmative statements.
- 11. METHODS TO CHANGE ATTITUDE PROVIDE INFORMATION: Lack of sufficient information makes people to think negatively. The correct, facts and figures will make people to change their attitudes. So providing real information to them is one of the techniques to change their attitudes. INFLUENCE WITH FRIENDS: Sometimes perception can’t bring changes in attitude. The influence of friends makes a person to think positive. THE CO-OPTING APPROACH: In order to change attitude of an individual, he is placed in dissatisfied group of people and making him involved in improving. “ Anything is possible when you have the right people to support you”
- 12. USE OF FEAR: Attitudes can also be changed by creating fear in the minds of others. When the fear is at the lower level, people often ignore them. And when the fear is at the moderate level, people change their attitudes. But at a higher degree of fear, people once again reject a message and refuse to accept the change. Studies on psychology indicate that a positive attitude and positive thinking can bring better mental health and happiness. “ Thinking will not overcome fear, but ACTION will.