Emergent Themes and Potential Approaches to Attitude Function: The Function-Structure Model of Attitudes

Attitudes toward driving can be used to illustrate attitude functions, which are the psychological needs that attitudes fulfill. One can ask why people hold positive attitudes toward driving: What interests are served by these attitudes? At a deeper level, why do people bother to form positive or negative attitudes toward driving in the first place? Both of these questions inquire into the motivations that underlie such attitudes.