20. PA OR MD: AFFECTIVE ATTITUDE, COGNITIVE ATTITUDE, AND CAREER CHOICE.

Entrepreneurship careers are increasingly widespread and well-suited for business as they contribute to the country's economic growth. However, studies show that most students think that the entrepreneurship field cannot provide a bright future and prefer to choose salary-based employment. Therefore, the study aimed to identify the relationship between cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitude with the entrepreneurship career choice among undergraduate final year students at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). This study uses a quantitative approach and the survey method involved 336 undergraduate final year students from Bangi main campus and the questionnaire was used as a research instrument adapted from the previous study. Data were processed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) 23.0 software which involved descriptive and inferential analysis. The results of the study show that the level of application of cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitudes as well as the level of the tendency of entrepreneurial career choice of final-year students is moderate and there is no difference in entrepreneurial career choice between male and female students. In addition, the study also shows that there is a strong relationship between cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitudes with entrepreneurial career choice and also found that cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitudes influence the entrepreneurial career choice of undergraduate final year students. The implication of this study shows that final year students have a moderate entrepreneurial career tendency and can be enhanced with an emphasis on developing a positive cognitive attitude, affective attitude, and behavioral attitude. Therefore, entrepreneurship educators should also be committed to exposing students to entrepreneurial activities and strengthening their entrepreneurial education.

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Understanding street-level bureaucrats’ attitude towards clients: Towards a measurement instrument

Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.1177/0952076718789749 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 84-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Shelena Keulemans ◽

Steven Van de Walle

Keyword(s):

Work Engagement ◽

Measurement Instrument ◽

Prosocial Motivation ◽

Street Level ◽

Affective Attitude ◽

Test Study ◽

Causality Testing ◽

Street Level Bureaucrats ◽

Cognitive Attitude ◽

Multicomponent Model

The attitude of street-level bureaucrats towards their clients has an impact on the decisions they take. Still, such attitudes have not received much scholarly attention, nor are they generally studied in much detail. This article uses Breckler's psychological multicomponent model of attitude to develop a scale to measure street-level bureaucrats' general attitude towards their clients. By means of a test study ( N=218) and a replication study ( N = 879), the article shows that street-level bureaucrats' attitude towards clients consists of four different components: a cognitive attitude component, a positive affective attitude component, a negative affective attitude component and a behavioural attitude component. It also establishes a conceptual and empirical distinction from related attitudes, such as prosocial motivation, work engagement, bureaucrats’ rule-following identities and self-efficacy, and suggests avenues for application and further validation among different groups of street-level bureaucrats. This instrument opens up opportunities for theory testing and causality testing that surpasses case-specific considerations.

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Measuring Attitude Towards Chemistry, Biology, and Math at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-fpqst-v2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jordan Chang ◽

Erik Menke

Keyword(s):

Factor Structure ◽

Student Attitudes ◽

Hispanic Serving Institution ◽

Affective Attitude ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

The Subject ◽

Similar Factor ◽

Hispanic Serving ◽

Instrument Reliability ◽

Cognitive Attitude

This work describes the evaluation of the Attitude toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory (ASCI), as well as two modifications (one for measuring attitude toward math and one for measuring attitude toward biology), for college students at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Instrument reliability was tested via multiple administrations of the instruments,and confirmatory factor analysis supported a two-factor structure similar to an existing model of a revised version of the ASCI for all three instruments. The similar factor structure of the three instruments, coupled with interviews with students, provide validity evidence for the instruments and support an interpretation that one of the subscales aligns with a cognitive aspect of attitude while the other subscale aligns with an affective aspect. The results of these instruments indicate that students have a more positive attitude towards biology than either chemistry or math, and more positive affective attitude than cognitive attitude for all three subjects, although student attitudes show little change with respect to biology, chemistry, or math during a typical semester. However, major perturbations, such as switching to remote instruction mid-semester, can lead to small but significant increases and decreases in attitude.

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Environmental Attitude of the Inhabitants of Nijandaris in the Conservation of Natural Resources - Peru

Journal of Education Society and Behavioural Science ◽

10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i730345 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 47-56

Author(s):

María Julieta De La Vega Fernández ◽

Ronald Révolo Acevedo ◽

Bimael Quispe Reymundo ◽

Saúl Caballón Flores

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Adult Population ◽

Environmental Attitude ◽

Probabilistic Sampling ◽

Affective Attitude ◽

Conservative Attitude ◽

Relationship Coefficient ◽

Conservation Of Natural Resources ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cognitive Attitude

The environmental attitude is a psychological tendency expressed by the evaluative (perceptions or beliefs) response towards the environment and natural resources flora, fauna, water, soil and air are naturally valuable products for development and continuity towards sustainability; relating both concepts in the Nijandaris population is the main objective of this research. Methodology: a probabilistic sampling was carried out at an age of [30 - 60 years] = 50 people respondents, questionnaire of 20 questions each; validated by the Rensis Likert scale 3 levels each, applying the Karl Pearson relationship coefficient and bilateral t-student. Conclusions: The environmental attitude of the inhabitants of Nijandaris is between bad to regular, likewise their conservative attitude towards natural resources ensures that they always do so. The relationship between environmental attitude and conservation turned out to be positive and significant. Regarding their dimensions, the association between affective attitude and conserving flora and fauna obtained r=0.38 positive median t=2.88; the correlation between cognitive attitude and conserving water and soil obtained an r=0.42 positive median t=3.21, and the relationship between conative attitude and conserved air has a considerable positive r=0.62 t=5.47. Therefore, we affirm that there is an environmental attitudinal concern towards the conservation of the natural resources of the adult population [30-60 years] in the Nijandaris Populated Center.

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Observing pro-environmental behavior based on consumer attitudes and norms

Diponegoro International Journal of Business ◽

10.14710/dijb.2.2.2019.76-85 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 76

Author(s):

Jati Waskito ◽

I Imronudin ◽

C Chuzaimah

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behavior ◽

Social Norm ◽

Environmental Behavior ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Psychological Aspects ◽

Green Product ◽

Actual Behavior ◽

Affective Attitude ◽

Personal Norm ◽

Cognitive Attitude

This study aims to investigate the differences in underlying psychological aspects regarding pro-environmental behavior between two distinct consumer groups: green product and non-green product consumers. Psychological aspects investigated includes cognitive attitude, affective attitude, social norm, and behavioral intention. Using survey, a total of 276 responses from Solo, Jogyakarta, and Semarang are succesfully collected. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to check the measurement model, while a multiple regression and MANOVA were performed to examine the proposed hypothesis. Compared to non-green product consumers, green product consumers exhibited significantly higher levels of cognitive attitude, affective attitude, social norm, personal norm, and green consumer behavior. Also cognitive, affective attitude, and personal norm predicted green consumer behavior. The limitations of this study include the self-reporting questionnare and the measurmenet of consumers’ recycling intention rather than their actual behavior.

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