"discouraging attitude" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person with an attitude that is demoralizing or demotivating. For example, "The supervisor's discouraging attitude made it difficult for employees to stay positive."
It offers a bamboozling plethora of rules and procedures and a discouraging attitude that beggars belief.
But what really undermined the plan was the discouraging attitude from members of neighborhood organizations and civic officials that opera was too specialized or, to put it bluntly, too elitist an art form to anchor an arts complex at ground zero.
However, barriers related to subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were mentioned frequently, like a discouraging attitude of colleagues, in particular of residents' supervisors, and high work-pressure.
Lack of response from higher authorities, discouraging attitudes, especially in the case of reporting vaccine preventable diseases (e.g., measles), and absence of feedback mechanisms, may demoralize frontline healthcare providers leading them to develop their own strategies outside formal accountability systems.
Tailored interventions with an objective to increase consistent condom use among initiated and traditionally circumcised rural men in the Eastern Cape Province could consider including components aimed to discourage any attitude that promote gender based violence and sexual coercion.
Ensure that the religion you intend to preach discourages attitudes that are contrary to the safety of the planet and its inhabitants.
Other barriers cited included: marital infidelity, ACB women's trust in their sexual partners, and cultural and religious attitudes discouraging condom use and communication about sex and safer sex practices.
Bad health worker attitude discouraged some people from going to health facility and was cited as a reason for long waiting time at health centres rather than the lack of human resources.
There was zero evidence of values, attitudes and behaviours discouraging employment and encouraging welfare dependency in the families taking part in the research.
There was no evidence of "a culture of worklessness" – values, attitudes and behaviours discouraging employment and encouraging welfare dependence – in the families being passed down the generations.
In the former communist world, state dependency fostered attitudes seen as discouraging successful enterprise.
