Attitudes - Science topic

The failure of the scientist to go further than he has in studies of sex is undoubtedly a reflection of society's attitudes in this field. (Alfred Kinsey)

Can anyone suggest academic papers or journals about the non academic human regarding attitudes towards non human animals gaining sentient status please?

We are a group of medical students at Aga Khan University and are conducting this survey to study attitudes and practices related to sexual and reproductive health among healthcare providers in a tertiary healthcare setting (The Aga Khan University). We encourage you to participate by filling out this form. This will take approximately 10-15 minutes of your time. Your participation will be anonymous.

I am writing my thesis on that subject

Hei, can anyone help me with my query?

thanks in advance.

I am creating a list of culturally conveyed health beliefs and misconceptions for a research project exploring how they may be related to different attitudes and health behaviours (e.g. health anxiety). I am interested in beliefs that are socially/culturally conveyed and are not (at least yet) supported by science and endorsed by medical professionals. I am particularly interested in culture specific (e.g. within a country or set of countries) that have the potential to significantly affect individuals' behaviour. At the moment my focus is mostly on beliefs "frequently" endorsed in Western/European cultures.

To give some examples, the beliefs that:

- You should not go into the water after eating

- Cold weather can cause flu or common colds

- Vaccines cause Autism

If you are aware of significant health misconceptions (modern or ancient) that may have a significant impact on behaviour please let me know (and if possible, in which country/culture they are "prevalent"). Thanks

I am searching about research papers and action research in this topic to collect the field experiences, challenges, benefits, attitudes and reactions towards it.

The Likert scale is a commonly used measurement tool in social science research to assess people's attitudes, opinions, or perceptions. The social science students still have difficulty selecting the appropriate Likert Scale for their academic study. Please suggest the best articles for the Master's and PhD level scholars in social sciences.

Good day! I am a 3rd year college student and I'm doing my research now. I am humbly ask everyone here to help me in my research. Can anyone suggest a theory for each variable that covers indicators stated?

1st Variable: Financial Literacy

Indicators: Financial Knowledge, Financial Behavior and Financial Attitudes

2nd Variable: Buying Decision

Indicators: Cultural, Social and Family

Thank you!

I indeed looked for it everywhere but in vain. Many thanks in advance.

You are welcome to respond to this question with your scientific thoughts.

My thesis is about the inclusion of autism,now I need a tool to measure Chilidren's attitudes toward autism. I have read a paper "Another step  to inclusion: Development and validation of the Children's Attitudes Toward Autism Questionnaire". In this paper, it has the complete questionnaire. I want to contact the writter to acquire the permission of this questionnaire.

. How will you go about finding out effects on stud. Academic achievement? What will you exactly do?

TVET graduates perceive the incorporation of technology into their educational programs. It delves into their attitudes towards technology and its role in their vocational training.

Pedagogy is the process of teaching to help students learn the concepts and ideas of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of contents of the curriculum.

Dear all,

I am sharing the model below that illustrates the connection between attitudes, intentions, and behavior, moderated by prior knowledge and personal impact perceptions. I am seeking your input on the preferred testing approach, as I've come across information suggesting one may be more favorable than the other in specific scenarios.

Step 1: Test the relationship between attitudes and intentions, moderated by prior knowledge and personal impact perceptions.

Step 2: Test the relationship between intentions and behavior, moderated by prior knowledge and personal impact perceptions.

Step 3: Examine the regression between intentions and behavior.

Conduct SEM with all variables considered together.

I appreciate your insights on which version might be more suitable and under what circumstances. Your help is invaluable!

Regards,

Ilia

hi, i'm currently writing my psychology dissertation where i am investigating "how child-oriented perfectionism relates to behavioural intentions and attitudes towards children in a chaotic versus calm virtual reality environment".

therefore i have 3 predictor variables/independent variables: calm environment, chaotic environment and child-oriented perfectionism

my outcome/dependent variables are: behavioural intentions and attitudes towards children.

my hypotheses are:

i used a questionnaire measuring child-oriented perfectionism which will calculate a score. then participants watched the calm environment video and then answered the behavioural intentions and attitudes towards children questionnaires in relation to the children shown in the calm environment video. participants then watched the chaotic environment video and then answered the behavioural intentions and attitudes towards children questionnaire in relation to the children in the chaotic environment video.

i am unsure whether to use a multiple linear regression or repeated measures anova with a continuous moderator (child-oriented perfectionism) to answer my research question and hypotheses. please please can someone help!

Hi everyone!

I am currently working on a study and looking to see if there is a difference in the strength of relationship between personal values of masculinity versus environmental values to masculinity on individuals tendencies to seek help for mental health related concerns. I have run two correlations (one between attitudes and personal values, the other between attitudes and environmental values) and have found only the correlation between attitudes and personal values to be statistically significant. I'm wondering if being that there is only a significant correlation between one independent variable and the dependent variable, is there a need to compare correlation coefficients to determine if there is a statistically significant difference in strength?

Of note, the sample size is the same for both correlations. If it isn't needed great! However, if it is still a needed, how do I got about this?

Thank you all in advance for your help! :)

What are people's takes on how to "bin" non-binary and gender nonconforming participants in surveys involving animal attitudes?

Given there's strong gender associations with animal attitudes (where women tend to show more positive/empathetic animal attitudes vs. men, all else equal [though there are cultural differences that modulate these]), it's important we include gender as a question in many of our surveys. But in assessing gender effects or associations on outcomes, I struggle with how to treat non-binary and gender NC respondents. There's usually only a few and I don't want to throw them out, but I wonder whether to batch them with women-identifying or men-identifying. I've heard cases for binning them with men so as to compare "women-identifying" against "everyone else", but my intuition would suggest that non-binary individuals may be more empathetic to animals given ideas about intersectionality, so perhaps it's better to batch them with women? Any suggested readings or thoughts to justify in one direction or other (or another option) are very welcome!

My research is qualitative; it aims to explore attitudes and perceptions of EFL instructors about online teaching. What potential semi-structured interview questions about attitudes and perceptions towards online teaching can I make to gather data that will achieve the research aims?

The research variables are communication skills and attitudes. If you are from any communication study background or have good experience in the validation process, that will be of great help.

I am a master student, can any expert suggest is the model suitable for my level or this is more advancing for PhD level?

The proposed title for this research is: Investigating the Drivers of Micro Consumption Attitudes and Financial Well Being: The Impact on Consumer Well Being

I am not quite sure about the arrow pointing from micro consumption attitudes to financial well being , and what are the IVs has to do with my DV (consumer well-being)?

I need current and engaging articles on Attitudes, Self-monitoring, organisational culture AND Digital records preservation

Can I explore students' beliefs about ELF(English as a Lingua Franca) if they haven't had any chances to be exposed to ELF environment?

In this study I wanted to find out what factors that can be change milk yield of dairy farmers and do farmer’s attitudes, skills on farming, knowledge on farming relate with yield of milk production in cows. Further, living environment of the animals and nutrition of animals relate with milk production of cows.

The farmers’ attitudes can be affecting the way farmers treat their animals and it could be affecting the milk production. This study is focusing this context as we could be improving our milk production with the resource available with our farmers if their attitudes are contributing to milk production.

With the development of technology and the development of the market and human attitudes, there is nevertheless racism, whether for color, race, sect, or religion.

I'm seeking example self-report survey items to measure the following constructs among a U.S. audience of adults. Thanks in advance for any tips, this is outside my research area and I'm not having much luck in my literature search on the topic. I'd like to measure: knowledge, and to a lesser extent attitudes and practices about:

1. Knowledge of what districts someone lives in (e.g., ability to name either one's elected representative or district number for federal, state, etc. levels)

2. Knowledge of what levels of government control different policy areas (state vs. federal vs. municipal, etc.). My hope is we could give examples of possible policies and determine if the respondent could identify the responsible elected official or level of government with jurisdiction over the topic area. My examples will likely be health and health equity related.

3. Knowledge about different ways to engage in different types of policy advocacy: a) contacting elected representatives; b) writing op-eds/letters to editor; c) forming and joining coalitions; d) creating & distributing sign-on letters; e) other forms of advocacy like phone / text banking etc.

4. Knowledge about the constraints and opportunities for government employees to engage in advocacy; namely differences between advocacy vs. lobbying; oppotunity to engage as a private citizen (vs. government employee) etc.

I want to use the survey to determine baseline knowledge, attitudes, & practices, and to measure change over time.

Thanks in advance!

How can we measure the impact of STEM attitudes and computational thinking on 21st century skills?

I am currently conducting research into the dark triad and attitudes to cheating and was looking for some guidance in regards to the analysis. I want to analyse the Dark Triad traits as separate conducts as well as having an overall impact of the Dark Triad on attitudes to cheating, how would I go around actually making this possible on SPSS?

Thank you

Dear colleagues, could you answer some questions in the following questionnaire, please?

https://forms.gle/N6Dtr8xyx6qfAKsu6

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks! /Anne

Skills, Values, Attitudes, Characteristics

Hi everyone,

This may be bit of a stretch, but if you have used the following scale before, could you please tell me what higher (and lower) scores indicate? I cannot find the scale in English.

Fragebogen zur Erfassung von Einstellungen gegenüber übergewichtigen Menschen [Questionnaire for Measurement of Attitudes toward Obese People], Degner 2006)

Leonard Hall added a reply (20 April 2023, in my discussion: “Can any experimental or theoretical proof be for ‘the’ existence of ether?) (With Leonard Hall's written permission in RG.)

Howdy Raphael Neelamkavil,

This question just appeared on an RG sidebar so I read through the set of replies. It's quite a trip, and of course I have my own theory, but I enjoy the discussions your questions raise.

I believe "catalyst" is the term I want here. My best tuned muffler design emerged in the aftermath of a terrible idea that was otherwise quite useless! Aristotle's introduction of the "aether" as the quintessence filling the universe beyond the sublunary sphere was quite useful to him in description. Young's double-slit experiment proved the wave nature of light, for a while, and the aether concept supported extensive learning which eventually produced more complete understanding, and many remaining questions about it. Why worry whether aether is "actual" with or without proof when it is so useful? Granted, it may mislead, but that is my point with the tuned muffler incident. We are still so ignorant we must have mavericks that explore, while the majority marches on incrementing what works.

The Philosophy of Science must be opportunity that aids discovery, not rules that protect all those doing philosophy from error. Proof about aether will come in it's time. In the meantime, what should be done about the fact that there are 11,552 replies to the RG question "What are the major and most effective refutations of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity?"

Factually, I do not understand "If ether is of infinite activity, it cannot interact with anything in the world, and hence also with matter, EM and Gravitation." If aether exists, activity associated with it will be local and its "infinite activity" seems to me irrelevant. Oh,well, great discussion!

Happy Trails, Len

Raphael Neelamkavil added a reply (21 April 2023)

Leonard Hall, thanks. You asked: "Why worry whether aether is "actual" with or without proof when it is so useful?" To my mind, this must increasingly be taken as an unacceptable attitude in science and of course in philosophy, because this is the attitude that stalls the progress of both (and also of human institutions), by creating discrete "epochs and revolutions" in their way ahead.

For me, the question as to the existence of ether, and if it does exist its manner of action and influence on the world, are important enough. Not because the answer will come soon. But there is always some more light into the eventual near-perfect but imperfect solutions when we keep reasoning about its possible existence and non-existence, influence and non-influence, extent of influence and non-influence, etc.

For some scientists, only a direct proof will count. "Mere reasoning" is useless for them. But very few have produced almost direct proofs for anything -- and if they insist on science having produced direct proofs, we will and shall attempt to show them that, theoretically, they are not even able to prove the existence of the physical world directly.

Hence, indirect reasoning too has its value -- even if science, philosophy, etc. will transpire only in terms of epochs and revolutions. I for my part have used the MMM (Maximal-Medial-Minimal) Method for this purpose.

About the RG question "What are the major and most effective refutations of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity?". If you notice the going-ons therein, you will realize also the attitudes and motives behind many of the warring factions therein.

Sorry, if not the motives, then at least the attitudes that come to the fore through the words being used. I do not say this about all of them. Some of them use their words in such a manner as for others to feel that the ones who express themselves so will surely have missed parental love in childhood.

Bibliography

(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.

(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.

(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.

(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.

(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.

In UAE,  there are other Arabic dialects used. I just want to examine students attitudes towards English, Standard Arabic and the spoken dialect using the matched guise technique. So which dialect to use the in the recorded  dialect guise  ?

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The text is Accurately Assessing Teacher ADHD Specific Attitudes Using the Scale for ADHD-Specific Attitudes Sarah Mulholland, Therese M Cumming, Jihyun Lee

Thank you very much.

Hi everyone. My question is how to handle missing data from a paired T-Test?

I am looking at pre-post survey data for a college course. The survey question are looking at students attitudes on multiple subjects, from the beginning of the course to the end of the course. I used a likert scale and course instructors were hoping that the attitudes towards the topics improved in a positive direction.

In the pre-test I have about 598 responses, in the post-test I have about 363 responses. I have a total of 700 respondents. Some of the students who did the pre-survey dropped the course, and some of the students who did the post survey added the course later in the quarter. My analytical sample with completed responses for both pre-post are about 250 responses. When I do paired T-Test it seems that attitudes towards the topics improved. I am worried about non-response bias.

After conducting expectation maximization I have complete data for all 700 respondents. When I do the paired T-Test it appears most of the attitudes towards the topics became negative. With more than half of the values imputed for, I am worried that this method skewed the data with too many imputed values.

What would be your recommended course of action?

Hello everyone,

I am currently doing research on the impact of online reviews on consumer behavior. Unfortunately, statistics are not my strong point, and I have to test three hypotheses.

The hypotheses are as follows: H1: There is a connection between the level of reading online reviews and the formation of impulsive buying behavior in women.

H2: There is a relationship between the age of the respondents and susceptibility to the influence of online reviews when making a purchase decision.

H3: There is a relationship between respondents' income level and attitudes that online reviews strengthen the desire to buy.

Questions related to age, level of income and level of reading online reviews were set as ranks (e.g. 18-25 years; 26-35 years...; 1000-2000 Eur; 2001-3000 Eur; every day; once a week; once a month etc.), and the questions measuring attitudes and impulsive behavior were formed in the form of a Likert scale.

What statistical method should be used to test these hypotheses?

Data collected from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter raise ethical issues such as seeking consent and copyright.

We are interested in your personal experiences of and attitudes towards using technology enhanced language activities (i.e. activities involving web-based teaching tools, online content, multimedia, etc.) in your teaching following the period of emergency remote teaching. The questionnaire should take you around 10 minutes to complete. CONFIDENTIALITY: Your responses are anonymous and there are no potentially identifying questions. Moreover, the electronic data collection system fully conforms with the highest standards of rigor and integrity in all aspects of the research. Thank you very much for your help.

Here is the link

I am interested in doing research on knowledge, attitude, and intention towards nursing profession.

Hello, I'm looking for assistance with data analysis using SPSS for my project in order to find out about consumers' attitudes toward an advertising appeal. Your assistance and advice will be greatly appreciated in this regard.

Thanks

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In reading about diglossia, I found a note that the high and low variety corresponds to a set of behaviors, values and attitudes. So, I wonder about the difference between them and how they could be varied between H and L variety

I need a theoretical reference about work engagement and employee attitudes, can anyone help me because I'm doing research.

give me a reference for it

thank you for all

Hi,

Please can someone explain what the psychological attitudes and processes underlying torture.

Thanks

Dear researchers,

I really need your help on the following two problems:

-In my study, a five-point Liket scale questionnaire will be used with both the control and the experiment group to find out their attitudes about writing. But I don't know what statistic test to use to compare them on that . I do not think that the t test is appropriate because Likert scale data are not interval. 2- In one of my research questions, I want to find out if students' perforamce on writing ( essay writing scores) correlates with their attitudes (Likert scale data). What test can I use for that? The Pearson correlation test , to my knowledge, is not appropriate because one of the variables is continuous (writing performance) while the other (Attitudinal measures) is not.

Your help is highly appreciated.

I have conducted a survey whereby I am looking at the differences in attitudes between university students and non-university students. I am now beginning to analyse the data but I'm not sure if I should have had a hypothesis and if it is necessary for analysing the data?

Hello,

I'm hoping someone might be able to steer me in the right direction.

I'm undertaking a research project looking at parents/caregiver's attitudes towards telemental health (TMH). Specifically, comparing 3 groups:

1. parents/caregivers who have a child/adolescent with a mental health diagnosis

2. parents/caregivers who have a child/adolescent without a mental health diagnosis

3. adults with no dependents

In addition to this, I want to understand how parents/caregiver's culture (CALD background) influences their attitudes towards future use of telemental health.

My survey questions will be based on parents/caregivers future attitudes toward using TMH.

I am stuck on selecting the correct statistical analysis to undertake. I am thinking some form of regression analysis, but not certain which one or if a regression is appropriate.

Thank you :)

Sonya

I have conducted an experiment to counter COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, with one between-subjects factor (4 levels of corrective message conditions) and one within-subjects factor (3 levels of testing time), and the dependent variable being knowledge scores. Included in my secondary analyses is the exploration of additional variables I have collected (baseline attitudes and posttest perceived quality of corrective messages) with a specific question: Is there a relationship between perceived quality of corrective messages and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines; that is, do attitudes predict perceived quality of corrective messages? This is aimed at establishing ‘if’ pre-existing attitudes regarding COVID-19 vaccines significantly predict individuals’ perceived quality of corrective messages towards myths about the vaccines. It is important to note that the perceived quality of corrective message is a between-subjects outcome variable after each four participant group has been exposed to the assigned corrective message.

Now, my question is, should I be doing a simple linear regression to determine how much of the variation in perceived quality of corrective messages can be attributed to their pre-existing attitudes regarding COVID-19 vaccines? (Perceived quality of corrective messages is treated as the outcome variable while attitudes will be used as the predictor variable). Or is this a case for a multiple linear regression with one multi-level nominal variable (4 levels of corrective message conditions) and one continuous variable (attitude)? If the latter is the case, is there any references I can use to run and interpret results through SPSS?

Thank you very much for your help.

Dear researcher, I have read a lot about Liker scale and Liker-like questions. However, it is always ''depends'', and needs to be evaluate from situation to situation.

My aim is to examine factors that correlate with attitudes among public health workers represented by 5-point Liker scale. Dependent variables are Q7s. Indepent variables should be all variables above?

For instance.

Dependent variables are Liket like responds on these questions (only first two... In total there are nine questions):

1. I feel trained enough to ask the client about the use of psychoactive substances

2. I feel qualified enough to ask the client about the amount and frequency of use of psychoactive substances daily activities

Independet variables are: geneder, age (number of year), experience (number year), profession (4 group), training (yes/no), knowledge about different aspects of drug use (in 5-pont Likert like scale from no knowledge to excellent knoweldge)

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Thans for your help.

sincerely

Aleksandar

I am looking for Experts from the field of Media & Communication studies who have specifically studied the role of social media in influencing consumption attitudes.

My study aims at establishing a correlation between social media usage amongst college students in India and how it influences them to consume K-Dramas.

If anyone can help me out with it, I'd be really grateful.

Hi all,

I have used the 12 Item version of the Community Attitudes to Mental Illness (CAMI) scale for my undergraduate dissertation. The scale uses Likert measurements where positive statements are scored

'1' Strongly agree = 100

'2' = Somewhat agree = 75

'3' = 'Neither agree not disagree' = 50

'4' = Somewhat disagree = 75

'5' = Strongly disagree = 0

However, there is also a 6th option of 'don't know' the original paper states those choosing this option are excluded from the total score. Do I need to code this 6th option in order to exclude it? I have tried the select cases function but its still including the 6th option in the total score. Very confused! Any advice will be greatly apprieciated.

Dani

Hello everyone can you help me?

I want to study the peoples' perception, attitudes, and preferences of socio-economic and ecological benefits of existing practices. So, which types of data and statistical analysis tests are appropriate for my study?

Im conducting a study where I want to investigate consumer attitudes and purchase intention via questionnaires. I know that product related attitudes (price, taste etc) affects purchase intention, but I'm interested in investigating other areas. Do I need to include these product related attitudes in my questionnaire and control for them in my analysis, or can i disregard/exclude these variables entirely from my study?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, I am researching the effect of a method on children's attitudes towards the a course. Due to the nature of this method, it should be carried out in groups of 10-12 people at most. Can I create an experimental group with 10-12 students? Is there any statistical issue with this?

when analyzing a likert scale of attitudes of people containing items concerning the attitudes related question , can it's hypothesis be form with the statement of item which is being taken as dependent variable? such as there is a relationship between gender and perception of people (infidelity is an unacceptable behaviour) .What is the correct way of writing a meaningful hypothesis in such case?

Ive read about some scales that I would like to use to create mine but I cannot find the actual scale: Attitudes towards attempted suicide, Attitudes towards deliberate self harm, suicide opinion questionnaire. Ive emailed authors but no response. Please help

I am writing my thesis about stances and attitudes of mathematicians, regarding the use and utilization of Historical notes in secondary education mathematics school textbooks, in their teaching practices

I am doing a project for the final module of my degree with the OU, and looking at the relationship between epistemological beliefs and peoples attitudes towards constructivist online learning environments. I have managed to locate a sample epistemological beliefs questionnaire but struggling to find the full list of questions on the CLES. Could anybody point me in the right direction please? Thanks

Hi! I'm a fourth-year college student. This is my first time doing quantitative research with nominal and ordinal data.

I would like to ask for your help and/or advice regarding the statistical tool that I should use when I want to see the relationship between the technology access of students, with 21 statements answerable by yes or no, and student attitudes with statements rateable within a Likert-scale.

In addition, I would like to ask for any ideas on how I could possibly interpret the results or their relationship, with both variables (technology access and student attitude) having three indicators each?

Thank you so much.

The psychometric or tests should cover the interculturalknowledge attitudes and skills that early- years educators possess and engage during their daily practice, especially when it comes to foreign language-focused activities.

(1) Do covid changes consumers attitudes and purchase behaviour?

(2) Or will consumer attitudes and purchase behaviour be the same again after the pandemic?

(3) Does covid affect the attitude-begaviour gap (e.g. for organic products)?

(4) Is there already literature on these questions?

This is a draft at the moment but thinking about it for a long time. I want to see if local populations' perceived threat, stigmatising attitudes and xenophobia (IVs) is related to immigrants emotional exhaustion and isolation (DVs). In this model, IV's will be collected from local people where they live with immigrant community and DVs will be from immigrants from the same neighborhood. I know it is problematic but how should we design and test such a model in a proper way.

Hi,

I am analyzing a study and I would like to see if individual differences interact with situation factors (i.e. individual and situation = IV) regarding their impact on another factor (=DV).

IV1: Individual differences are numeric / interval variables (e.g. attitudes - score from 1 to 7).

IV2: Situation are nominal (e.g. Accepted vs Rejected) variables.

DV (e.g. meta-perception) is interval (score from 1 to 7).

And I would like to know if Attitudes and Acceptance (vs rejection) interact to predict meta-perception level.

So something like: Meta-perception ~ Attitudes * Acceptance.

This would normally be a regression but the situation variables are either fully repeated measures (meaning participants did all the conditions) or mixed (participants did 2 conditions on 4).

Do you know which test this could be? And do you have any resources to recommend about it that present a similar example? If you know resources using R it will be even better !

Thanks for your help,

We collected quantitative data on 5 points Likert Scale (Strongly agree = 5; Agree = 4; Neither agree not to Disagree = 3; Disagree = 2; and Strongly disagree = 1) via self-administered questionnaire survey. Questions were grouped into three components: (1) Behavioral component; (2) Cognitive component; and (3) Affective component. Respondents were students of the final year in the field of Business Management, with a focus on entrepreneurial start-ups. The study aims to assess Business Students’ Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Education.

Hi all,

I am interested in conducting a research on:

“English instructors’ attitudes, practices and challenges in designing and developing their own teaching materials: in the case of first year English major students.”

As can be seen in the title, there are three main variable (attitudes, practices and challenges) and my concern is how I can obtain sufficient and valid data for the second variable (practices). Should I use interview and questionnaire? Or should I observe them while they are designing and developing their teaching materials?

At the HCII2021 virtual conference held in July 2021, I presented the results of a survey by Rosanda, V. & Istenic, A.: “A Stranger in the Classroom: Pre-service Teachers ’Anxiety and Negative Attitudes Toward Humanoid Social Robots”. The implementation of social robots in the preschool and primary school environment introduces anxiety and negative attitudes in our sample of future teachers. In the discussion that followed I highlighted the source of these negative attitudes, which we subsequently identified (Istenic, A., Bratko, I. &Rosanda, V.). Our participants consider social robots to be unsuitable for preschool and elementary school classrooms because of their social presence and social skills. They would only allow robots to perform very simple tasks (routine tasks) in their classrooms. Our participants reject precisely those skills that are currently being developed by robot designers for classroom use. We are currently further testing our results on another generation of future teachers in two different cultural settings. The preliminary analysis however shows a similar trend.

During the discussion, one of the conference participants expressed doubts that acceptance studies were still needed. What do you think? Do we still need acceptance studies? Are acceptance studies necessary when introducing new technologies that mimic the human essence in regular and systematic interactions with preschool and elementary school children? Do you think that they are not necessary because we will once again witness a comfortable conception and interpretation of technological development, according to which technological development by itself raises the quality of education? Do you think that also in this case the education specialists will simply accept the flow of technological development, in a similar manner to what happened with the implementation of PCs in classrooms? Based on previous experiences, do we perhaps expect that, given time, “harshly criticized development will become the accepted new norm” (anonymous reviewer)?

Perceptions and attitudes have some ambiguity concerning their use. Some of the researchers differentiate between them, but the others use them interchangeably. How can you disambiguate between them?

Which method can be used to analyze daily panel data in combination with annual survey data (on income, attitudes towards organic products and so on)? The method should also be able to measure changes over time (e.g., in attitudes toward organic products and actual purchases of organic products).

Possible research question: How do consumer attitudes (annual measrured by asking the consumers once a year) and actual purchasing behavior (daily measured) change over a long period of time?

Hello,

My name is Brian Raines and I am a student at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in Sacramento CA. I am conducting research on psychologists’ attitudes (to include unlicensed psychologists, practicum students, interns and post-docs) about using video based psychotherapy or counseling since the COVID-19 stay at home orders. Your time in filling out this survey would be greatly appreciated.

I am inviting you to participate in a research study investigating your attitudes regarding online therapy. My name is Brian Raines, a clinical psychology doctoral student and I am conducting this study as part of my dissertation research under the supervision of Dr. Emil Rodolfa at Alliant International University, Sacramento.

This anonymous survey will explore your experience using video for online therapy with your clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are interested in participating or would like more information, please use the link below for access to the study website or contact Brian Raines at braines@alliant.edu. I appreciate your time and participation in this very brief survey.

Sincerely,

Brian Raines, MA

Clinical Psychology Graduate Student

Alliant International University

Approved by Alliant International University Institutional Review Board (2108216943)

I am trying to research whether a relationship exists between attitudes towards the fourth industrial revolution and cognitive abilities. From the literature I've found, the skills that will be in higher demand in the fourth industrial revolution are not necessarily hard skills but "soft skills" ( e.g problem solving, creativity, reasoning, problem sensitivity, visualization, mathematical reasoning across all industries.

I have found a test for attitudes but I cannot find one for cognitive abilities. Please assist.

Kind regards

Hi

Please can anyone help me, For a Social Psych undergraduate Assignment research study (quantitative) I have Come up with the idea of testing the attitudes and perceptions of the abilities of people with visible disabilities. I was going to use the ATDP scale to first establish a baseline of all participants. Then splitting participants by getting half to read a disabled person scenario and half to do the non-disabled person scenario involving a maths task (other ideas would be welcome). Then completing another ATDP to see how the scale has shifted. I’m not sure if this is the best scale to use.

Additionally, , I am confused as to how I should analyse this using SPSS and what test and why it would be right to use in this instance. I also am unsure how to report the test.

Any help or advice would be appreciated as this is my first research study that I have been allowed to choose and I want it to be right.

Thank you in advance.

I have couple of questions and will really appreciate it if you can help me with them:

1) I want to test if different age groups (IV) will score differently to punitive and rehabilitation attitudes (DV's).

2) Same with gender and ethnicity (IV's)

I am writing a paper on racism in science and would like to hear reports about scientists and researchers who have experienced situations involving racist attitudes from other researchers, and how this issue has impacted or impacts on research.

I am trying to work on my graduate essay and need to get ideas for how to create a survey on pre and post-knowledge of UTIs and the importance of clean catch in inpatient elderly amongst nurses, as well as, their beliefs and attitudes.

Do you know of valid and reliable instruments to measure biphobia and transphobia in a subtle way? All the instruments I find either have poor psychometric characteristics or measure these attitudes in an overt/direct way... Thank you in advance!

For a new study, we want to assess the subjective perception of attitudes of an individuals' family, friends and broader surroundings, on sexual and gender diversity. Reseach of course shows the influence of the norms and values that are present around us, on how we think of ourselves and how safe it might be to disclose certain aspects of our identity to others. In our target group of transgender and gender diverse individuals, the Gender Minority Distress and Resilience scale is often used. However, we feel it does not fully measure the subjective perception of how 'safe' coming-out or disclore could feel. Does anyone have a suggestion, maybe from the broader field of LGBTQIA+ field?

Hi all,

I am looking into how and why ratings or attitudes towards a hypothetical construct or subject (ie, something that persons do not know) can differ over time. More specifically, in our study we asked participants to give their attitudes towards a hypothetical construct (ie, potential medication) at two points in time.

For those, where the attitudes differed (ie, they rated the same hypothecial medication differently at the two points in time): I am wondering whether their attitude changed over time (which was max. 3 weeks) if we simply found measurement error. Are there any explanations on the fluidity of attitudes towards hypothetical constructs? So far, I have not been able to find literature on this. If you have suggestions on literature of keywords to narrow my search, I would much appreciate it.

Another explanation would be that differences in context account for the differences in attitudes/ratings. Our two study time points were in different settings (at the hospital and at home). This is sub-opitmal methodology, but are there any sources that show differences in ratings depending on the context/situation?

Thank you for your help!