I am working on the relationships between attitudes and behaviors in explaining men's contribution to housework. I am looking for a clear theoretical distinction between attitudes, values, norms, beliefs and preferences since I've seen that different disciplines use them as synonyms. Thank you
That is very complicate issue. In fact, there is not unique definition for any of these concepts.When looking for learning preferences definition, I found that there are several of them, but the most extended, looks to be choice; choice as preference.
Regarding attitudes, I think Serguey Rubinshtein has, in his "General Psychology", a definition of it, but I can not say for sure, whether or not, it has been translated into English, as many other activity theory works.
Even less known and less translated, are the results of Georgian psychologist Dimitri Uznadze: Theory of Attitude and Set (теория установки), where set was considered the main, central concept, and not activity, as it was in Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Luria works, among other Russian and soviet psychologists.
Hello,
We attempted to answer some questions related with work-family conflict in
Blanch, A. & Aluja, A. (2012). Social support (family and supervisor), work-family conflict, and burnout: Sex differences. Human Relations, 65, 7, 811-833.
Perhaps it may be of help.
Regards,
Angel
Hello Adriano,
You can find their exact meanings and measures in the psychological papers. Look at the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and TBC as they explain them and the interrelationships among them.
Hope that helps
Negin
To my mind you have it upside-down by jumping from a behavioral question to psychological concepts (of which the exact meaning isn't even clear). Moreover you also jump directly to explanation, skipping understanding.
Why not start by observing and questioning the people who's behavior you want to understand? What happened to curiosity?
Thanks a lot to all of you! The TPB has been described by one of my Professors as "Cartesian" and "Deterministic", but there are actually interesting developments of it here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-009-9187-9/fulltext.html
Angel Blanch, thanks for the paper ...
Flip Schrameijer, you're right, I should start to get out of my office ...
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