Title: Personal beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviour | IAA
Headings: Personal beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviour
Personal beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviour
What is a belief?
What is a personal value?
What is an attitude?
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Personal beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviour
The diagram below illustrates the influences on us that result in our behaviour and whether that resulting behaviour is ethical. The diagram first outlines the sources of our beliefs. It then shows the relationship between the beliefs and values to our attitudes and our resulting behaviour. What is a belief? A belief is an idea that a person holds as being true. A person can base a belief upon certainties (e.g. mathematical principles), probabilities or matters of faith. A belief can come from different sources, including: a person’s own experiences or experiments
the acceptance of cultural and societal norms (e.g. religion)
what other people say (e.g.education or mentoring). A potential belief sits with the person until they accept it as truth, and adopt it as part of their individual belief system.