Having a(n) in the status quo can cause a person to become resistant to change.

A "Vested Interest" is a a strong personal interest in something through someone's ambitions or aspirations, owing to get an advantage from it.

A private reason to be involved in a situation, particularly when hoping  financial profit or other benefit. (at times land or money held in trust).

Thereby: "having a Vested Interest in the status quo can cause a person to become resistant to change".

what terms are there?

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.