It is designed to measure a basic attitude to life, or a personality dimension, hypothesized to facilitate the ability to cope with stress.
It may be more difficult to change a patient's basic attitudes to his/her health situation and to the importance of adherence to therapy in a rehabilitation programme.
This article focuses on the attitude dimension, which was used to describe parents' basic attitudes to breastfeeding.
To dismiss critics of Labour, or those that doubt its basic attitudes to power and individual freedom, as "rampant anti-state individualists" is rhetoric, not reason.
In particular, a comparison of his religious-philosophical treatises with his Commentary on Plato's Republic shows the basic unity of his attitude to the Sharīʿah dictated by Islam and therefore determining his attitude to philosophy, more precisely to the nomos, the law of Plato's philosopher-king.
The basic attitude of the researchers was to be flexible themselves.
An important question to consider is whether the basic attitude between the participants is of the cognitive, normative, or rather of the affective kind.
While he did not comment directly on Mr. Bo's fate, Mr. Wang said: "The basic attitude of the officials with power is: You don't need to know anything.
Americans' basic attitude toward the treatment of animals — without regard for racing — is almost identical to what it was five years ago in another poll conducted after Funny Cide won the Kentucky Derby.
Their titles — "The Living End," "The Doom Generation," "Nowhere" and one that can't be printed here — evoke the basic attitude, if not the full measure, of Mr. Araki's furious wit.
