In our study, as in others [32], the attitude towards contraception in the last relation was used as an indication of the habitual attitude towards contraception, because the latter is a much more difficult variable to measure than the former.
This term designates both the habitual forms and attitudes of the human mental apparatus, and the experiences of the mind as it recognizes these attitudes as falsely objectivized moments within its antinomical structure, and as it transcends these limits by disposing itself in new ways towards itself and its objects.
An alief is an automatic or habitual belief-like attitude that adduces a predictable associative response.
This leads Locke to conclude that the primary normative character of value norms is best sought in their functional role as stereotypes of feeling attitudes and as habitual impulses toward certain choices of actions.
But as most great thinkers of the past have understood, and as so many psychologists of the present confirm, you can alter your attitudes and feelings and habitual patterns of thought through deliberate practice.
In addition to this the models refer to bottom-up experiential processes whereby the person remains conscious of raw unprocessed present-centered experiencing that prevents or interrupts habitual responses and is enabled by an attitude of nonjudgment, compassion, and open curiosity.
Attitude direct, subjective norm, anticipated consequences, habitual behaviour and past behaviour significantly predicted behavioural intention.
It was once easy to distinguish habitual or likely voters from nonvoters by their political attitudes.
Rather, by setting out a fundamental distinction between performing deeds that are themselves ethical and performing deeds out of a firm, habitual ethical disposition, Aristotle wants his readers to cultivate and practice the attitudes and behaviors that render ethical choices not quite "automatic" but perhaps welcome – those we make readily out of our own inclinations and volition.
MARGARET SCHOFIELD I have not been a habitual newspaper reader for most of my adult life, but my attitude changed when i came out.
