Section E: Attitudes and Academic Status of Freshmen

I IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT A POSITIVE SELF ATTITUDE IS PROBABLY MORE desirable to the individual if maximum learnings are to be achieved. The key to the individual's perception of and attitudes toward learning rests within the self, that is, a positive feeling toward self would likely emerge when the self structure is firmly organized, and a negative feeling about self would be evident when the organization of self is threatened by experiences which are vaguely or clearly seen as inconsistent with that structure (2, 3).