Making Injury Prevention and Safety More Fun, More Personal ... and More Effective: The role of attitude in the success of an injury prevention process

摘要

While you read this paper I want you to try something. Read it without an attitude. What I am asking you to do is read this paper with no preconceived ideas and form no opinions. I want you to shut down all of your emotions and be completely neutral. When you are finished reading it, I want you to discuss what you have read with someone else without your attitude influencing what you say. What I have asked you to do is virtually impossible. No one moves through life in a "neutral" state. Our environment continuously influences our attitudes and as a result our attitudes are in a constant state of flux. These changes guide our choices and behaviors. Despite the dramatic role attitudes play in our daily life they are often neglected in the development and implementation of injury prevention and injury prevention processes