This document discusses a study on individual differences and attitudes. It defines individual differences as variations among people in certain characteristics that distinguish one person from another. The document outlines several types of individual differences including interests, attitudes, values, study habits, and psychomotor skills. Individual differences are caused by both hereditary/nature factors like intelligence as well as environmental/nurture factors like family and education. The document also defines attitudes as feelings or inclinations towards people and things, and discusses the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of attitudes as well as their sources in family, peers, and socialization.

1. A STUDY ON INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AND ATTITUDES
BY,
PRATHIKSHA R
PRAJWAL MR

2. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
 Individual differences stand for the variation or deviations among
individuals in regard to a single characteristic or number of
characteristics.
 It is stand for those differences which in their totality distinguish one
individual from another. So, we can say that individual differences is the
differences among humans that distinguish or separate them from one
another and makes one as a single unique individual.

3. TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
 Differences in Interest
 Difference in Attitude
 Difference in Values
 Study Habits
 Difference in Psychomotor Skills
 Difference in Self Concept

4. CAUSES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Hereditary (Nature)
Individuals have various endowments, abilities, and capacities provided by
hereditary. Which decide the path of progress and development of an individual.
1.Hereditary also put limits upon individuals' growth and development in various
dimensions.
2.Hereditary also contributes to sex, intelligence, and other specific abilities

5. Environment (Nurture)
Environment also plays key role in individual differences. No person from birth to
death gets the same environment. Individual differences occur on the basis of
simulation received by individual from his or her internal and external
environment. This may include family set up, peer group, economic status,
education etc.

6. ATTITUDE
Attitudes can be defined as an individual’s feelings about or inclinations towards
other persons, objects, events, or activities. Attitudes encompass such affective
feelings as likes and dislikes, and satisfactions and dissatisfactions. Our needs, past
experiences, self-concept, and personality shape the beliefs, feelings, and opinion
we hold towards the perceived world.
Attitudes are categorized into two major groups :
Cognitive
Evaluative

7. Components of Attitudes
i) Cognitive (Thinking) Component
ii) Affective (Feeling) Component
iii) Conative (Behavioural) Components

8. Sources of Attitudes
i) Family Members
ii) Reference Group
iii) Peer Group influence
iv) Socialization and Learning process

9. Types of Attitudes
i) Job Satisfaction
ii) Job Involvement
iii) Organizational Commitment

10. CONCLUSION
 Individual differences basically is – the psychological differences between people and
their similarities.
 The ultimate result of understanding Individual differences could be summed up in a
line - “No two persons are born exactly alike; each differs from the other in natural
endowments, one being suited for one occupation and the other for another”.
 Whereas, Attitude is the way of thinking or feeling about something, a certain state
of mind at the time. These mental states, developed through experience, are always
ready to exert an active influence on an individual’s response to any conditions or
circumstances.

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