Role-change resistance is the core construct tapped by modern prejudice measures.

Evidence

This insight that prejudice becomes a social problem in the context of group members’ attempts to change their social roles is consistent with the specific content of instruments designed to assess modern prejudices. Typical items assess resistance to change. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 211

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes what ‘modern prejudice’ instruments actually operationalize — resistance to role change, not generalized antipathy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 211