In ‘Reversibility or Disagreement’ (this journal), we posed a dilemma for invariantists about epistemic expressions—that is, for those who claim that expressions such as ‘might’ and ‘probably’ make a contextinvariant contribution to the truth conditions of the utterances to which they belong. The crux of our dilemma is simple: invariantists, we argued, cannot make sense of a phenomenon that we ...

PURPOSE To develop a profiling tool which accurately assigns a patient to the appropriate attitudinal cluster for the management of asthma. METHODS Attitudinal data from an online survey of 2,467 patients with asthma from 8 Asian countries/region, aged 18-50 years, having had ≥2 prescriptions in the previous 2 years and access to social media was used in a discriminant function analysis to id...

background: professionalism is an important feature of the professional jobs. dynamic nature and the various interpretations of thisterm lead to multiple defi nitions of this concept. the aim of this paper is to identify the core attributes of the nursing professionalism. materials and methods: we followed rodgers’ evolutionary method of concept analysis. texts published in scientifi c database...

The purpose of the study was to examine the structure of the attitudinal scale of the ATIPDPE, an instrument based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) of Ajzen (2000). Participants were 145 prospective physical educators (70 females & 75 males), of an average age of 21.19 years, enrolled in three physical education teacher preparation programs in the Czech Republic. Based on analysis, the a...

According to attitudinal theorists, justices on the U. S. Supreme Court decide cases largely on political preferences that fall within one dimension of ideology. The focus of this study is to test whether a unidimensional ideological model explains the voting behavior of Canadian Supreme Court justices (1992-1997). The factor analysis results in three areas of law, two of which have never been ...

Abstract On Bicchieri's view, social norms most centrally involve a pattern of preferences among the members relevant population; according to Brennan, Eriksson, Goodin, and Southwood, patterns normative attitudes given group. This paper argues, first, that can require as well behaviour, and, second, existence such attitudinal speaks in favour preference-based view against attitudes-based view.

Using meta-analysis, we compare three attitudinal outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intent), three behavioral outcomes (i.e., interpersonal deviance, organizational deviance, and work performance), and four health-related outcomes (i.e., general health, depression, emotional exhaustion, and physical well being) of workplace aggression from three different sour...