The purpose of the present invention is to provide a resistive composition that can form a thin film resistive body that has the harmful lead component eliminated from a conductive component and a glass thereof and that, with respect to characteristics such as TCR characteristics, current noise characteristics, voltage withstand characteristics, and having a wide range of resistance values is provided with equivalent or superior characteristics as compared to conventional thin film resistive bodies. The present invention is a resistive composition that includes: ruthenium conductive particles that include ruthenium dioxide; glass frits that do not substantially include a lead component; and an organic vehicle. The glass frits are such that the temperature coefficient of resistance of a fired object of a mixture of the glass frits and ruthenium dioxide is positive when the resistance value of the fired object is in the range of 1 kohm/ to 1 Mohm/.