Effect of one month residential yoga program on measuring the positive and negative attitude

Abstract

Introduction 1.1 Attitude An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event the attitude object. Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once defends attitudes "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology."Attitude can be formed from a person's past and present. The study of attitudes include attitude measurement, attitude change, and attitude-behavior relationships. 1.2 Definition of Attitude The definition of attitude is an evaluation of an attitude object to vary from extremely negative to extremely positive, but also admits that people can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object meaning that they might at different times express both positive and negative attitude toward the same object. This has led to some discussion of whether individual can hold multiple attitudes toward the same object. An attitude can be as a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, events, activities, and ideas. It could be concrete, abstract or just about anything in your environment, but there is a debate about precise definitions. Define an attitude as "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor though it is sometimes common to define an attitude as affect toward an object, affect discrete emotions or overall arousal is generally understood to be distinct from attitude as a measure of favorability. Attitude may influence the attention to attitude objects, the use of categories for encoding information and the interpretation, judgment and recall of attituderelevant information can be more powerful for strong attitudes which are easily accessible and based an elaborate knowledge structure Attitudes may guide attention and encoding automatically, even if the individual is pursing unrelated goals. Attitudes are explicit deliberately formed versus implicit subconscious has been a topic of considerable research. Research on implicit attitudes, which are generally unacknowledged