I’m working on an ebook titled “6 Powerful Mechanisms Behind
Personal Change”. This post is a part of the chapter about
positive attitude. I will show you what attitude is and how you
can use it to be proactive. The Nature of Attitude Daniel D.
Droba claims he was the first to define the attitude concept and
he did so in his article The Nature of Attitude from 1933. Droba
based his study on 55 books on sociology and psychology and he
concluded that attitude is a state of preparation to action.
“Attitude is a state of preparation to action” Carl Jung’s
definition of attitude I’m surprised that Droba only used
American sources and studies because the attitude concept has a
central role in Carl Jung’s Psychological Types published in
1923. Jung’s work is used today in personality tests and
development of organisations. In his work “Psychological Types”
(pp. 526-30) Jung gave his definition of attitude: “Attitude is
a readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain
direction.” Jung places great emphasis on t