ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARD SUCCEEDING RESEARCH: A REVIEW

Abstract

The aim of the detailed study was to review the levels of human response in terms of attitude against certain research activity. Human attitude influences on the nature of human behavior. Both attitude and behavior are the qualitative psychological characteristics of human being that can be shifted from positive to negative according to appearance of the reactions. Research is the organized scientific process; where information is transferred in knowledge by learning and innovation is created adding time based new ideas and findings in the existing knowledge. Attitude expresses responses in a scale of cognitive, affective and conative domains towards research. Attitude is the spontaneous mental response that varies from positive to negative depending on the nature, appearance and availability of the reactant like person, event, institution or other creations. To support the aim of the review, a bunch of works of different researchers on human behaviour, human attitude and fundamentals of academic research were studied, reviewed and interpreted with the current status of human attitude towards research. The review reveals that a major range of university students with high academic grade, ability and experience have shown positive attitude towards future conductance of research, whereas a group of students with lack of knowledge and training have shown negative attitude towards academic research.