The article describes results of the study aimed at exploring the response style to change within the psychological system of action among young people from St. Petersburg and Tomsk. The study involved 474 respondents (mean age 22.5±3.9) from two Russian cities: 291 residents of St. Petersburg and 183 residents of Tomsk. The parameters of psychological system of action were evaluated with the World Values Survey (R. Inglehart), the Self-Organization of Activity Questionnaire (E.Yu. Mandrikova), the Reflexivity Type Assessment Test (D.A. Leontiev, E.N. Osin), and the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (D.V. Lyusin). Response style to change was assessed with the questionnaire developed by T.Yu. Bazarov and M.P. Sycheva. The response style to change was shown to be integrated within the psychological system of action. The variance in the “Conservative” and “Innovative” response styles was explained by the following parameters: self-organization of activity (consistency, persistence, fixation, self-organizatio