Longitudinal changes in the perceived impact of societal transitions

This report presents findings from the third wave of the Tilburg Trendmonitor Mens en Maatschappij, based on a December 2025 LISS panel survey of 4,094 Dutch residents. The study examined longitudinal changes in the perceived impact of six societal transitions between 2024 and 2025 and expanded the analysis to nine transitions across five life domains: self, family, work, friends, and neighborhood. Overall, perceptions remained relatively stable over time, although digitalization was perceived as significantly more impactful in 2025, while climate change was perceived as less impactful. Younger and more educated respondents showed the greatest changes in perceived impact across most transitions. Across life domains, most societal transitions were evaluated as slightly negative, whereas digitalization emerged as the only transition perceived positively, particularly in the work domain. The findings highlight that aggregate population stability can mask meaningful subgroup differences and suggest that societal transitions are experienced unevenly across demographic groups and domains of daily life.