Conducted by Steven Arnocky of McMaster University and Mirella L Stroink of Lakehead University, the study found that gender differences in environmental attitudes could be explained by the presence or absence of emotional empathy.
Though the stronger attitudes could be explained by selection bias towards those most interested and trained in environmental health, the lower self-efficacy in those same regions despite controlling for provider training cannot.
Unexpectedly, in this study those with lower family income had a better attitude; this could be explained due to the fact that the main source of information for EC in this study was media which can be accessed by most students in the university regardless of their economic status.
Data analysis produced from a tourist survey in Guilin, China, suggested that attitudes on calligraphic landscapes could be explained by three factors, namely, calligraphic cultural cognition, calligraphic landscape preference and calligraphic aesthetic cognition.
The results of these analyses demonstrated that the attitudes which underpin students' responses could be explained by five underlying dimensions: (1) being quality improvement focused, (2) internalising errors regardless of harm, (3) value of contextual learning, (4) acceptability of questioning more senior healthcare professionals' behaviour and (5) attitude towards open disclosure of errors.
Twenty-four fleet managers participated in the study and the results suggested that the effectiveness of the fleet safety initiatives in changing fleet managers' attitudes toward the management of fleet safety could be explained through some of the processes underlying the persuasive communication and behavior management frameworks.
The elevated risk for depression could be explained by negative attitudes towards women, lack of acknowledgement for their work, fewer opportunities for them in education and employment, and greater risk of domestic violence.
Finally, clinicians reported that non-compliance could be explained by "the patients' attitude first of all, and usually they are some other issues going on that make them not bother to put the drops in".
Instead the pair argued that rioting from members of black communities in Brixton, Tottenham, Liverpool and Birmingham could be explained by "bad moral attitudes".
