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A Proposed Model of Lifestyle Balance
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In this article, a model of lifestyle balance based on a synthesis of related research is presented, which asserts that balance is a perceived congruence between desired and actual patterns of occupation across five need-based occupational dimensions seen as necessary for wellbeing.Abstract:
The concept of lifestyle balance seems to have widespread acceptance in the popular press. The notion that certain lifestyle configurations might lend to better health, higher levels of life satisfaction and general well‐being is readily endorsed. However, the concept has not been given significant attention in the social and behavioral sciences literature and, as a result, lacks empirical support, and an agreed upon definition. This article presents a proposed model of lifestyle balance based on a synthesis of related research, asserting that balance is a perceived congruence between desired and actual patterns of occupation across five proposed need‐based occupational dimensions seen as necessary for wellbeing. It is asserted that the extent to which people find congruence and sustainability in these patterns of occupation that meet biological and psychological needs within their unique environments can lead to reduced stress, improved health, and greater life satisfaction.read more
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Value dimensions, meaning and complexity in human occupation - a tentative structure for analysis.
TL;DR: In this paper, a tentative structure for describing occupation is presented, allowing for analysis in a lifelong panorama as well as for the immediate experience a person acquires from performing a single occupation.
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Participation Patterns in Preschool Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Patti LaVesser,Christine Berg +1 more
TL;DR: Children with an autism diagnosis participate in fewer preschool activities of self-care, community mobility, vigorous leisure, sedentary leisure, social interaction, chores, and education than children with no diagnosis.
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Callings, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement among teachers in Zambia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationships among a calling orientation, work role fit, psychological meaningfulness and work engagement of teachers in Zambia and suggest that it is necessary to address the work orientation and work role fitting of teachers as pathways to psychological meaningfuls and workengagement.
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From happiness to flourishing at work: a Southern African perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify dimensions of employee flourishing, and investigate the antecedents and outcomes thereof in the southern African work and organizational context The findings of various studies were reviewed, and data gathered from a sample of managers in South Africa (N = 505) was used to explore the dimensions, antecedent, and outcomes of flourishing.
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Boundaries and Bridges to Adult Mental Health: Critical Occupational and Capabilities Perspectives of Justice
TL;DR: The 2nd Townsend and Polatajko Lectureship invites interdisciplinary knowledge exchange with a critical occupational perspective on the question: What lessons on boundaries and bridges to adult mental health can be drawn by connecting the capabilities and occupational frameworks of justice.
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Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
TL;DR: An integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment is presented and findings are reported from microanalyses of enactive, vicarious, and emotive mode of treatment that support the hypothesized relationship between perceived self-efficacy and behavioral changes.
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as mentioned in this paper maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, emphasizing that needs specify the necessary conditions for psychological growth, integrity, and well-being.
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A Theory of Human Motivation
Abstract: 1. The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory. 2. The hunger drive (or any other physiological drive) was rejected as a centering point or model for a definitive theory of motivation. Any drive that is somatically based and localizable was shown to be atypical rather than typical in human motivation. 3. Such a theory should stress and center itself upon ultimate or basic goals rather than partial or superficial ones, upon ends rather than means to these ends. Such a stress would imply a more central place for unconscious than for conscious motivations. 4. There are usually available various cultural paths to the same goal. Therefore conscious, specific, local-cultural desires are not as fundamental in motivation theory as the more basic, unconscious goals. 5. Any motivated behavior, either preparatory or consummatory, must be understood to be a channel through which many basic needs may be simultaneously expressed or satisfied. Typically an act has more than one motivation. 6. Practically all organismic states are to be understood as motivated and as motivating. 7. Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of prepotency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives. 8. Lists of drives will get us nowhere for various theoretical and practical reasons. Furthermore any classification of motivations