Rita holds several beliefs about 'mental health' including her reasons of depression, ways of achieving happiness and ideas about ways of coping. This attitude system exhibits :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Complexity
Option (1) Complexity — Correct. This feature refers to how many attitudes there are within a broader attitude. An attitude system is ‘complex’ if it is made up of many member attitudes; the attitude towards health and well-being includes one’s concept of physical and mental health, views about happiness and beliefs about how to achieve them. Rita holds several beliefs about mental health, the same kind of many-member system.
Option (2) Simplicity — Incorrect. An attitude system is ‘simple’ if it contains only one or a few attitudes, as the attitude towards a particular person usually does. Rita’s attitude system has several members.
Option (3) Centrality — Incorrect. Centrality refers to the role of a particular attitude in the attitude system: a central attitude influences the other attitudes much more than peripheral ones do. The question is about how many beliefs Rita holds, not which one rules the others.
Option (4) Extremeness — Incorrect. Extremeness indicates how positive or negative an attitude is; on a 5-point scale a rating of 1 or 5 is the most extreme. Nothing is said about how strongly Rita feels.
NCERT (2025-26): “Nature and Components of Attitudes … Extremeness : The extremeness of an attitude indicates how positive or negative an attitude is. Taking the nuclear research example given above, a rating of 1 is as extreme as a rating of 5 : they are only in the opposite directions (valence). Ratings of 2 and 4 are less extreme. A neutral attitude, of course, is lowest on extremeness.…” “…Simplicity or Complexity (multiplexity) : This feature refers to how many attitudes there are within a broader attitude. Think of an attitude as a family containing several ‘member’ attitudes. In case of various topics, such as health and world peace, people hold many attitudes instead of single attitude. An attitude system is said to be ‘simple’ if it contains only one or a few attitudes, and ‘complex’ if it is made up of many attitudes. Consider the example of attitude towards health and well-being. This attitude system is likely to consist of several ‘member’ attitudes, such as one’s concept of physical and mental health, views about happiness and well-being, and beliefs about how one should achieve health and happiness. By contrast, the attitude towards a particular person is likely to consist of mainly one attitude. The multiple member-attitudes within an attitude system should not be confused with the three components described earlier. Each member attitude that belongs to an attitude system also has A-B-C components.…” “…Centrality : This refers to the role of a particular attitude in the attitude system.…” |