MEANING
Relating to people’s beliefs, feelings, or evaluations about an issue, group, or object.
Use it for
distinguishing attitudes from observed behavior; describing changes in beliefs or evaluations; identifying what a questionnaire is intended to measureDistinguishes beliefs and evaluations from actions, intentions or externally observed outcomes. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- attitudinal change
- attitudinal measures
- attitudinal differences
On the page
The survey records attitudinal change rather than changes in actual purchasing behavior.
Attitudinal differences between age groups do not necessarily predict how individuals will vote.
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Word forms
- Base
- attitudinal
Usage notes
Relational adjective, usually attributive. No ordinary comparative or superlative. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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