Exploratory Factor Analysis and Convergent Validity of the Adult Executive Function Inventory (ADEXI).

Importance: The Adult Executive Functioning Inventory (ADEXI)-a short, practical, self-report questionnaire accessible across diverse adult populations and languages-was used to assess executive functions (EFs), primarily inhibition and working memory.

Objective: To examine the construct validity of the ADEXI Hebrew version through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and convergent validity by correlating scores with similar measures of EF.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional study using online anonymous surveys.

Adolescents' social interaction skills on social media versus in person and the correlations to well-being.

Introduction: High-quality social interactions with peers could protect adolescents' mental health, resilience, and well-being. Assessing their social interaction skills (SIS) is essential to enhancing them. However, few instruments provide information about SIS in in-person and social media environments.

Mind Sports: Exploring Motivation and Use of Cognitive Strategies in Bridge.

The game of Bridge is one of the world's most widely played mind-sport games. A growing number of people consider it a meaningful leisure activity and are motivated to play. The aim of this study was to describe a sample of Bridge players in Israel in terms of demographics, player records, motivations, and cognitive strategies used to play Bridge and examine the associations between these variables.

Inside the Functional Individualized Therapy for Teenagers with Executive Deficits (FITTED): Insights from the Adolescents and Their Parents.

This study explores Functional Individualized Therapy for Teenagers with Executive Deficits (FITTED) factors facilitating adolescents' improvement. At each of eight therapy sessions, 41 adolescents with executive function deficits and their parents wrote the primary concept they "took away." Experts categorized their answers by the FITTED model's main factors-, , and -adding for the parents' answers.

Cognitive Strategies: Moderating the Relationship between Executive Functions and Daily Functioning.

Whereas prior studies have addressed relationships between cognitive strategies and learning and achievement, very few dealt with their connection to daily functioning. This study examines the moderation effect of the frequency of compensatory cognitive strategy use within that relationship among university students. A sample of 336 students (18-36 years; 180 women, 156 men) answered the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX; executive function components), Time Organization and Participation Scale (TOPS; daily functioning), and Compensatory Cognitive Strategies Scale (CCSS; strategy use).

Anticipatory Awareness and Actual Handwriting Performance Measures among Adolescents with Deficient Executive Functions.

This secondary analysis explores differences and correlations between handwriting anticipatory awareness (time estimation, expected performance, and expected difficulty) before a paragraph copying task and actual performance time and legibility among adolescents with executive function deficits (EFD) versus neurotypical adolescents. Eighty-one adolescents (10-18 years old; 41 with EFD and daily functioning difficulties as per parent reports) estimated their time, expected performance, and expected difficulty before the paragraph copying task using the Self-Awareness of Performance Questionnaire (SAP-Q). Time duration was assessed using the Computerized Penmanship Evaluation Tool (ComPET) software, and legibility was scored using the Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS).

Coping strategies of families and their relationships with family quality of life during Covid-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to almost every aspect of parents' and their children's lives, posing an acute threat to the families' quality of life (FQOL). This study had two aims: (1) to identify changes in family coping-strategy profiles among parents pre- and during the first COVID-19 lockdown and (2) to analyze interactions between the clusters of coping strategies pre-COVID with FQOL during the first lockdown. A sample of 253 parents (58.

Handwriting legibility across different writing tasks in school-aged children.

In school, children are required to perform a range of handwriting tasks. The writing needs to be legible to the child and other readers. The aim of this study was to examine handwriting legibility across different writing tasks and to explore which components might predict overall handwriting legibility.

The Discrepancy between Actual Performance and Self-Awareness among Adolescents with Executive Function Deficits.

Adolescents with executive function deficits (EFD) struggle to perform complex daily activities and have difficulty being self-aware of their performance. This study aimed to compare actual performance with self-awareness of performance among adolescents with EFD before and after a metacognitive intervention. The participants consisted of 41 adolescents aged 10 to 14 years, previously diagnosed with EFD.

Relationships between motor skills and executive functions in developmental coordination disorder (DCD): A systematic review.

Background: Individuals with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) experience motor skill and executive function (EF) difficulties that challenge their daily activities.

Aim/objective: This systematic review aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the relationships between motor skills and EFs in studies among individuals with DCD.

Material And Methods: We conducted a systematic search of eight electronic databases for articles (published 1994-2021) reporting on quantitative studies that estimated relationships between motor skills and EFs when assessing children, adolescents and adults with DCD.

Role Perception of Occupational Therapists in Education Systems: Self-Efficacy and Employability Skills.

Although the main framework for occupational therapy includes delivery of services in educational institutions with students with disabilities, little is known about how the occupational therapists perceive their role in this specific system. This research examines an integrated conceptual model wherein self-efficacy explains the occupational therapists' role perception with employability skills as a mediator. Participants, 147 occupational therapists working in educational systems, completed an online demographic questionnaire, the Perception Questionnaire for Occupational Therapists in the Education System, General Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and Employability Key Questionnaire.

Role Perception and Professional Identity of Occupational Therapists Working in Education Systems: Perception du rôle et identité professionnelle des ergothérapeutes qui travaillent dans les systèmes scolaires.

Background.: Occupational therapists, especially those in education systems, are challenged to define their professional roles and identities.

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Exploring the Impacts of Environmental Factors on Adolescents' Daily Participation: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.

Adolescents with neurodevelopmental difficulties struggle to perform daily activities, reflecting the significant impact of executive functions on their participation. This research examines an integrated conceptual model wherein supportive environmental factors in the community, school and home settings explain the children's participation (involvement and frequency) with their daily activities performance as a mediator. Parents of 81 10- to 14-year-old adolescents with and without executive function deficit profiles completed the Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth and the Child Evaluation Checklist.

Daily Performance of Adolescents with Executive Function Deficits: An Empirical Study Using a Complex-Cooking Task.

Purpose: To characterize and analyze the performance of adolescents with executive function deficits through the Children's Cooking Task (CCT) as a performance-based complex ecological assessment.

Methods: Participants were 41 adolescents (aged 10-14 years) with normal intellectual function and executive function deficit profiles based on the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) parent reports and self-reports (BRIEF-SR) and the WebNeuro and 40 controls with typical development matched by age and gender. Participants in both groups performed the CCT, an ecological standardized complex task.

Reprint of 'Age-related changes in executive control and their relationships with activity performance in handwriting'.

Deterioration in the frontal and prefrontal cortex associated with executive functions (EF) occurs with age and may be associated with changes in daily performance. The aim of the present study was to describe changes occurring with age in Executive Functions (EF) and handwriting activity, as well as to analyze relationships between age, EF and handwriting performance. The study population included 80 healthy participants (aged 31 to 76+) living in the community.

Age-related changes in executive control and their relationships with activity performance in handwriting.

Deterioration in the frontal and prefrontal cortex associated with executive functions (EF) occurs with age and may be associated with changes in daily performance. The aim of the present study was to describe changes occurring with age in Executive Functions (EF) and handwriting activity, as well as to analyze relationships between age, EF and handwriting performance. The study population included 80 healthy participants (aged 31 to 76+) living in the community.