title: Resistance to change: developing an individual differences measure.
abstract: The Resistance to Change Scale was designed to measure an individual's dispositional inclination to resist changes. In Study 1, exploratory analyses indicated 4 reliable factors: Routine Seeking, Emotional Reaction to Imposed Change, Cognitive Rigidity, and Short-Term Focus. Studies 2, 3, and 4 confirmed this structure and demonstrated the scale's convergent and discriminant validities. Studies 5, 6, and 7 demonstrated the concurrent and predictive validities of the scale in 3 distinct contexts. The scale can be used to account for the individual-difference component of resistance to change and to predict reactions to specific change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA. oreg@soc.haifa.ac.il
authors.forename: Shaul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oreg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012922:Social Change; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires