Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow :-
The problem of household garbage is common in most Indian cities. Despite the increasing concern for clean environment we do not know to what extent citizens are aware about how to dispose the garbage at home. Sanyogita, a high school teacher took the lead to organise a team comprising of her colleagues in school and started going door to door in the nearby colonies to educate people on how to separate domestic waste and hand it over to the garbage collection agencies. She also avidly read about methods used by other developed countries and felt distressed when she observed how callous some people were towards keeping a clean environment. The local newspapers appreciated Sanyogita's efforts and applauded her publicly. Sanyogita's students and children joined her mission to segregate garbage and send the bio-degradable waste to the nearby recycle plant.
"Sanyogita felt distressed when she observed how callous some people are towards keeping clean environment". Identify the component of attitude being expressed here.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Affective
Option (1) Affective — Correct. The emotional component of an attitude is known as the affective aspect. Sanyogita felt distressed on seeing people careless about cleanliness: that is a feeling about the attitude object, the clean environment.
Option (2) Behavioural — Incorrect. The behavioural (conative) aspect is the tendency to act in a particular way towards the attitude object, such as going door to door to educate people. Feeling distressed is not an action.
Option (3) Cognitive — Incorrect. The cognitive aspect is the thought component: the views or beliefs one holds about the attitude object, such as reading about waste disposal methods. Distress is an emotion, not a thought.
Option (4) Effective — Incorrect. There is no such component; the three components are affective, behavioural and cognitive (A-B-C). ‘Effective’ only sounds like ‘affective’.
NCERT (2025-26): “Nature and Components of Attitudes … All definitions of attitudes agree that an attitude is a state of the mind, a set of views, or thoughts, regarding some topic (called the ‘attitude object’), which have an evaluative feature (positive, negative or neutral quality). It is accompanied by an emotional component, and a tendency to act in a particular way with regard to the attitude object. The thought component is referred to as the cognitive aspect, the emotional component is known as the affective aspect, and the tendency to act is called the behavioural (or conative) aspect. Taken together, these three aspects have been referred to as the A-B-C components (Affective-Behavioural-Cognitive components) of attitude.…”
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