Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that specific attitudes towards EoL decisions may be influenced by aspects of personality and religiousness of ICU personnel.
The objectives were to: (1) quantify these attitudes and (2) test the hypothesis that specific attitudes are significantly associated with rubber dam use.
Individual doctor attitudes and interest have been demonstrated to influence patient outcomes in some instances [ 2, 3] and it has been argued that specific attitudes are more predictive of behaviour than general attitudes[ 4].
Other research argues that some specific attitudes, e.g. the perceived value that a garden adds to the home, are better predictors than others of consumers' water use (Syme and others 1991).
More moderately, in discussing attitudes, Dennett emphasizes how the act of formulating an attitude in language for example, when ordering a menu item can involve self-attributing a degree of specification in one's attitudes that was not present before, thereby committing one to, and partially or wholly creating, the specific attitude self-ascribed (1987, 20).
In fact, it isn't clear how they can communicate the specific attitude expressed either, if its object and hence its content differs from speaker to speaker as many of these views allow.
These analyses sought to assess the contribution of each core variable to explaining variance in the specific attitude while controlling for all other variables and were run separately for each of the four attitudes.
Additional quantitative research could shed light on rates of reported side effects and proportions of the population that hold specific attitudes related to contraception and side effects.
This all reveals a very specific attitude that sums up British society.
I feel that they reveal a very specific attitude held by the banks, who barricade themselves to prevent vandalism by the angry mobs.
As attitudes of health professionals may influence clinical practice, the specific attitudes of such professionals towards ethnic registration are of interest.
