within-dimension attitude consistency
the extent to which pieces of attitude-relevant knowledge related to a single underlying dimension (i.e., a distinct category of information) are evaluatively consistent with one another. If the information within each underlying dimension of the attitude is evaluatively consistent (e.g., all positive or all negative), within-dimension attitude consistency is high. However, this type of consistency does not necessarily imply that cross-dimension attitude consistency is high. For example, the information related to one dimension could be extremely positive and the information related to a second dimension could be extremely negative, resulting in high within-dimension consistency but low cross-dimension consistency. Likewise, high cross-dimension consistency does not necessarily imply high within-dimension consistency. See also ambivalence of an attitude; complexity of an attitude.