Luck Orientation
Dimension 554 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Luck Orientation measures the extent to which expressions frame life outcomes, success, and personal standing in terms of luck, fate, or fortune rather than effort or earned control. It encompasses both perceived bad luck and perceived good fortune, as well as beliefs that chance strongly governs what happens.
evidence final name · Most Fortunate
Absent Luck Orientation
Expressions activating this band do not show a coherent focus on luck, fate, or fortune as an organizing explanation for life outcomes. The content is largely unrelated or only incidentally connected to chance-based interpretations.
Low Luck Orientation
Expressions activating this band show occasional references to fate, unfair outcomes, or being less favored in life, but luck is not yet a stable or dominant lens. The experience appears as pessimistic comparison, disappointment, or a sense that things go wrong.
Moderate Luck Orientation
Expressions activating this band treat luck as a meaningful explanation for opportunities, status, and life chances. The experience centers on feeling disadvantaged, cheated, or constrained by bad luck and limited opportunity.
High Luck Orientation
Expressions activating this band present fortune as a salient personal experience, especially through feeling lucky or having gotten a good break. Luck is described directly as part of how events are understood.
Strong Luck Orientation
Expressions activating this band explicitly endorse luck as a primary driver of success and outcomes. Chance is treated as more decisive than hard work or personal effort.
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Minimal Most Fortunate: Content characterized by anyway, anyways, left, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect most fortunate at this level.
Emerging Most Fortunate: Content characterized by idea, deserve, most, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect most fortunate at this level.
Elevated Most Fortunate: Content characterized by top, all, percent, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect most fortunate at this level.
Severe Most Fortunate: Content characterized by good, fortunate, most, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect most fortunate at this level.