Change Resistance
Dimension 562 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Change Resistance measures a person's preference for familiarity, routine, and established ways of doing things versus openness to novelty, variety, and adaptation. It encompasses comfort with new experiences, willingness to revise habits or views, and reluctance to depart from familiar patterns.
evidence final name · Prefer Doing
Minimal Change Resistance
Expressions activating this band show little clear concern with familiarity or change, or only incidental references to adjustment without a stable preference for routine. The proxy is largely absent or only faintly implied.
Low Change Resistance
Expressions activating this band show cautious engagement with change, with some preference for safety, predictability, or familiar people and routines alongside selective interest in novelty. Change is approached deliberately rather than rejected outright.
Moderate Change Resistance
Expressions activating this band show an active orientation toward novelty, learning, and life changes, while still acknowledging some pull toward simpler or familiar ways. Change is generally accepted as part of growth and everyday adjustment.
High Change Resistance
Expressions activating this band show a marked pull toward familiar surroundings, conventional ways, and repeated routines, with change treated as effortful, disruptive, or something to avoid unless clearly worthwhile. Openness to new ideas may appear, but behavior is anchored in established habits.
Severe Change Resistance
Expressions activating this band center on strong attachment to old, familiar ways and clear discomfort with new situations that require adaptation. Habit, sameness, and sticking with what is known define how the proxy is experienced.
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Minimal Prefer Doing: Content characterized by get, political, governments, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect prefer doing at this level.
Emerging Prefer Doing: Content characterized by changes, familiarity, try, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect prefer doing at this level.
Elevated Prefer Doing: Content characterized by generations, doing, see, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect prefer doing at this level.
Severe Prefer Doing: Content characterized by changed, hate, changing, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect prefer doing at this level.