Dogmatism
Dimension 444 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Dogmatism measures the extent to which an expression reflects rigid certainty in beliefs, preference for fixed standards and traditional norms, and resistance to revising views in response to alternative perspectives. It encompasses closed versus open engagement with ideas, moral and ideological absolutism, and insistence on established ways of thinking or acting.
evidence final name · Extent Students
Minimal Dogmatism
Expressions activating this band show little or no stable stance about fixed beliefs, standards, or openness to ideas, and are often neutral, miscellaneous, or only indirectly related to conviction and rigidity.
Low Dogmatism
Expressions activating this band show mild preference for familiar ways, neat standards, or reality-based thinking, with some fixation or reluctance toward novelty but without strong ideological certainty. The tone suggests everyday conventionality and limited openness rather than entrenched belief.
Moderate Dogmatism
Expressions activating this band present definite opinions and firmness in one's position while still engaging questions about openness, relativism, or alternative viewpoints. Beliefs are held with confidence, but the expression may still acknowledge complexity or competing possibilities.
High Dogmatism
Expressions activating this band emphasize strict adherence to principles, settled ways of thinking, and skepticism toward controversial or unfamiliar views. The expression frames beliefs and methods as established and proper, with stubbornness and limited tolerance for challenge.
Extreme Dogmatism
Expressions activating this band assert that traditional values or established beliefs should be defended rather than questioned, often in explicitly moral or ideological terms. The expression conveys uncompromising loyalty to principle and active opposition to permissiveness or dissent.
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Minimal Extent Students: Extent students is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse extent students.
Emerging Extent Students: Extent students is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where extent students was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect extent students at this level of intensity.
Elevated Extent Students: Extent students is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, extent students is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect extent students at this level of intensity.
Severe Extent Students: Extent students is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, extent students is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect extent students at this level of intensity.