Week Two Lab: Time Use and Occupational Balance

Question 1

What is deemed a “balanced lifestyle” based on 5 things?

Answer 1

1. Meet basic instrumental needs for
   sustained biological health and safety
2. Have rewarding and self-affirming
   relationships with others
3. Feel engaged, challenged, and
   competent
4. Create meaning and a positive personal
   identity
5. Organize time and energy in ways that
   enable personal goals and renewal

Question 2

What is occupational balance?

Answer 2

• perceived impact of occupations on one another is harmonious, cohesive, and under control
• subjectively defined
• balance or imbalance can enhance or retract from health

Question 3

How is occupational balance related to health?

Answer 3

• too few occupations and passive occupations with little challenge = loss of hope, meaning, capabilities, social isolation, alietnation, and wasting one’s life
• too many occupations = exhaustion and/or other psychosocial consequences
• valued social roles = increased satisfaction an community participation

Question 4

What are 4 concepts related to time use?

Answer 4

1. occuaptional pattterns (rituals, habits, routines)
2. Temporality: the subjective experience of time (occupational meaning and boredom)
3. Occupational balance/imbalance
4. occupational disengagement

Question 5

What can time use look like for individuals with mental illness?

Answer 5

• spend less time in productive or active leisure (unless in a manic episode)
• spend more time in passive activities
• report lower life satisfaction, quality of life, and well being comapred to those with other patterns of activities

Question 6

What time use look like across childhood?

Answer 6

• structured leisure activities
• school-related activities
• enjoyment in activities

Question 7

What does time use look like across older adulthood?

Answer 7

• reduced invovlement in formal productivity roles (b/c htey are retired)
• maintaining involvement in important life roles supports overall life satisfaction (ex: being a grandparent)

Question 8

What are three 24 hour time use measures used as time use assessment approaches?

Answer 8

1. Action Over Inertia (AOI)
2. Occupational Questionnaire (OQ)
3. Profiles of Occupational Engagement in Persons with Schizophrenia

Question 9

What are 4 meaningful activity measures used for time use assessment approaches?

Answer 9

1. EMAS
2. Boredom scales
3. ROle checklist
4. interest checklist

Question 10

What were some similarities between THe Modified Occuaptional Questionaire and Action Over Interia worksheet?

Answer 10

• time based
• looking at routines
• individualized
• possibly self-administered

Question 11

What were some differences between THe Modified Occuaptional Questionaire and Action Over Interia worksheet?

Answer 11

• AOI does not look at individual value of activity and how much society values it
• MOQ has an emphasis on how much society values the activity being performed
• Different structure (checkboxes vs open space)
• AOI is more open-ended and has a section for additional comments
• AOI more engaging through more personalized/reflective data collection (i.e. can write the type of work vs just “work”)
• MOQ probes about the reason behind doing the activity (allows for better understanding of the client/their time use priorities)
• MOQ categorizes occupations
• AOI asks about typical day, MOQ asks about previous day