Otjr-occupation Participation and Health, Jan 11, 2023
Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy servic... more Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy services. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and concurrent validity of the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT) as a video-conference-based graphomotor examination for children (GIFT-Online). Methodology: A community-based sample of 157 children aged 3 to 7 years was screened using the GIFT-Online. Findings: Inter-rater reliability was excellent ( r = 0.97; p < .001; n = 40). In addition, significant correlations were found between the total GIFT-Online scores and the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ’07), the Little DCDQ (LDCDQ) ( r = 0.29, p < .001; n = 157), and the Drawing Proficiency Screening Questionnaire (DPSQ) ( r = −0.35, p < .001; n = 157); demonstrating construct and concurrent validity. The online assessment was well received by parents and children. Conclusions: The GIFT-Online was found to be an acceptable method of assessing graphomotor performance. Our results support the validity and reliability of the GIFT-Online as a screening tool administered remotely, thereby overcoming physical distancing and travel restrictions.
BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hy... more BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hypothesized to rely on intact mechanisms of cognitive control (CC), i.e., the mental abilities that underlie our goal-directed behavior. These CC mechanisms may further help with emotion regulation during stressful periods. However, CC abilities may fluctuate, and there is no research to date on the daily fluctuations of CC and mood in relation to psychological resilience. OBJECTIVE The goal of the current study was to examine the everyday association between inhibitory control (IC), an integral part of CC, and daily mood in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. METHODS Data was collected from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Participants reported their resilience at baseline. Then, during a 2-week period, participants filled out a short momentary mood assessment and completed a short IC assessment (a Go-NoGo task; GNG) twice/day using a mobile app installed on their phones. A hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was applied to examine the association between momentary IC and mood for each participant. RESULTS A total of 1,153 assessment points (Mean [M] = 7.49, standard deviation [SD] = 2.95) were completed by participants, for an overall compliance rate of 57.6%. The HLM analysis showed that psychological resilience at baseline moderated the relationship between IC and mood, such that better IC was associated with better mood only for those with higher, but not lower, levers of self-reported psychological resilience at baseline. This association was present only for female, but not for male, participants in our sample. CONCLUSIONS To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate that psychological resilience is manifested in the everyday association between inhibitory control and mood. Hence, these findings provide an ecological validation for the definition of resilience, as measured in young adults during a stressful life period. These results therefore lend important support to cognitive models of resilience and may have significant contribution to our understanding of resilient behavior in real life and to potential ecological interventions designed to improve resilience. CLINICALTRIAL MOH_2018-06-13_002451
Psychological resilience, the ability to adapt to adversity, is theorized to rely on intact inhib... more Psychological resilience, the ability to adapt to adversity, is theorized to rely on intact inhibitory control (IC) mechanisms, which underlie one’s ability to maintain goal-directed behavior by inhibiting prepotent responses. However, no study to date has explored daily fluctuations of IC performance in relation to resilience. Here, we examined the association between IC and mood measured daily in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. Baseline resilience was obtained from 144 female and male soldiers during their basic combat training. Then, participants completed an ecological momentary assessment protocol, in which they reported their momentary mood and completed a short IC assessment twice/day for 2 weeks. A hierarchical linear modeling analysis revealed that psychological resilience moderated the relationship between momentary IC and momentary mood, such that better IC was associated with better mood only for those with higher, but not l...
Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy servic... more Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy services. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and concurrent validity of the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT) as a video-conference-based graphomotor examination for children (GIFT-Online). Methodology: A community-based sample of 157 children aged 3 to 7 years was screened using the GIFT-Online. Findings: Inter-rater reliability was excellent ( r = 0.97; p < .001; n = 40). In addition, significant correlations were found between the total GIFT-Online scores and the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ’07), the Little DCDQ (LDCDQ) ( r = 0.29, p < .001; n = 157), and the Drawing Proficiency Screening Questionnaire (DPSQ) ( r = −0.35, p < .001; n = 157); demonstrating construct and concurrent validity. The online assessment was well received by parents and children. Conclusions: The GIFT-Online was found to be an a...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The current study aimed to examine the unique contribution of personal and environmental factors ... more The current study aimed to examine the unique contribution of personal and environmental factors to explain graphomotor skills in typically developing preschoolers and first-year elementary school students. A convenience sample of 136 Israeli children aged three–seven years was recruited. Graphomotor skills were assessed using the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT); personal and environmental factors were assessed using a demographic questionnaire and the Home Literacy Experiences Questionnaire (HLEQ). A hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis revealed that home literacy and educational approach accounted for 43.1% of the variance of graphomotor skills (R2 = 40.4, p < 0.000), each providing a unique contribution to the explained variance after controlling for age, gender, and spoken language. Generally, our results supported the bioecological model, with proximal factors (home literacy and educational approach) having a greater influence on child graphomotor skills than dista...
Psychological resilience - the ability to adapt to adversity - is associated with intact inhibito... more Psychological resilience - the ability to adapt to adversity - is associated with intact inhibitory control (IC) mechanisms, which support goal-directed behavior. To date, no study has examined the daily fluctuations of IC performance in relation to resilience. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between IC and mood in young adults in a stressful situation in relation to psychological resilience. A baseline resilience test was conducted on 156 female and male soldiers during their basic combat training. Afterward, participants completed a 2-week ecological momentary assessment protocol, which included reporting their momentary moods and completing an IC assessment twice/day. A hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis revealed that psychological resilience moderated the relationship between momentary IC and momentary mood, with better IC only being associated with better mood for those with higher, but not lower, baseline psychological resilience. This associa...
Multiple internal factors, such as psychological resilience and mental health status, have been s... more Multiple internal factors, such as psychological resilience and mental health status, have been shown to contribute to overall quality of life (QoL). However, very few studies to date have examined how these factors contribute to QoL of youth and young adults in a stressful situation. Here, we studied the contribution of these factors, as well as of ecological momentary mood assessment, to QoL of young army recruits during their Basic Training Combat (BCT). To this end, we collected data from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Using a mobile app installed on participants' phones, participants provided self-reports regarding their mental health status and psychological resilience at baseline, and QoL 2 weeks later. Momentary mood reporting was further collected during the 2-week interval period using a daily self-report mood scale (IMS-12). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine the interrelationships among the ...
Expression and perception of emotions by voice are fundamental for basic mental health stability.... more Expression and perception of emotions by voice are fundamental for basic mental health stability. Since different languages interpret results differently, studies should be guided by the relationship between speech complexity and the emotional perception. The aim of our study was therefore to analyze the efficiency of speech stimuli, word vs. sentence, as it relates to the accuracy of four different categories of emotions: anger, sadness, happiness, and neutrality. To this end, a total of 2,235 audio clips were presented to 49 females, native Hebrew speakers, aged 20–30 years (M = 23.7; SD = 2.13). Participants were asked to judge audio utterances according to one of four emotional categories: anger, sadness, happiness, and neutrality. Simulated voice samples were consisting of words and meaningful sentences, provided by 15 healthy young females Hebrew native speakers. Generally, word vs. sentence was not originally accepted as a means of emotional recognition of voice; However, int...
BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hy... more BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hypothesized to rely on intact mechanisms of cognitive control (CC), i.e., the mental abilities that underlie our goal-directed behavior. These CC mechanisms may further help with emotion regulation during stressful periods. However, CC abilities may fluctuate, and there is no research to date on the daily fluctuations of CC and mood in relation to psychological resilience. OBJECTIVE The goal of the current study was to examine the everyday association between inhibitory control (IC), an integral part of CC, and daily mood in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. METHODS Data was collected from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Participants reported their resilience at baseline. Then, during a 2-week period, participants filled out a short momentary mood assessment and completed a short IC assess...
Otjr-occupation Participation and Health, Jan 11, 2023
Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy servic... more Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy services. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and concurrent validity of the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT) as a video-conference-based graphomotor examination for children (GIFT-Online). Methodology: A community-based sample of 157 children aged 3 to 7 years was screened using the GIFT-Online. Findings: Inter-rater reliability was excellent ( r = 0.97; p &lt; .001; n = 40). In addition, significant correlations were found between the total GIFT-Online scores and the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ’07), the Little DCDQ (LDCDQ) ( r = 0.29, p &lt; .001; n = 157), and the Drawing Proficiency Screening Questionnaire (DPSQ) ( r = −0.35, p &lt; .001; n = 157); demonstrating construct and concurrent validity. The online assessment was well received by parents and children. Conclusions: The GIFT-Online was found to be an acceptable method of assessing graphomotor performance. Our results support the validity and reliability of the GIFT-Online as a screening tool administered remotely, thereby overcoming physical distancing and travel restrictions.
BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hy... more BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hypothesized to rely on intact mechanisms of cognitive control (CC), i.e., the mental abilities that underlie our goal-directed behavior. These CC mechanisms may further help with emotion regulation during stressful periods. However, CC abilities may fluctuate, and there is no research to date on the daily fluctuations of CC and mood in relation to psychological resilience. OBJECTIVE The goal of the current study was to examine the everyday association between inhibitory control (IC), an integral part of CC, and daily mood in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. METHODS Data was collected from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Participants reported their resilience at baseline. Then, during a 2-week period, participants filled out a short momentary mood assessment and completed a short IC assessment (a Go-NoGo task; GNG) twice/day using a mobile app installed on their phones. A hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was applied to examine the association between momentary IC and mood for each participant. RESULTS A total of 1,153 assessment points (Mean [M] = 7.49, standard deviation [SD] = 2.95) were completed by participants, for an overall compliance rate of 57.6%. The HLM analysis showed that psychological resilience at baseline moderated the relationship between IC and mood, such that better IC was associated with better mood only for those with higher, but not lower, levers of self-reported psychological resilience at baseline. This association was present only for female, but not for male, participants in our sample. CONCLUSIONS To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate that psychological resilience is manifested in the everyday association between inhibitory control and mood. Hence, these findings provide an ecological validation for the definition of resilience, as measured in young adults during a stressful life period. These results therefore lend important support to cognitive models of resilience and may have significant contribution to our understanding of resilient behavior in real life and to potential ecological interventions designed to improve resilience. CLINICALTRIAL MOH_2018-06-13_002451
Psychological resilience, the ability to adapt to adversity, is theorized to rely on intact inhib... more Psychological resilience, the ability to adapt to adversity, is theorized to rely on intact inhibitory control (IC) mechanisms, which underlie one’s ability to maintain goal-directed behavior by inhibiting prepotent responses. However, no study to date has explored daily fluctuations of IC performance in relation to resilience. Here, we examined the association between IC and mood measured daily in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. Baseline resilience was obtained from 144 female and male soldiers during their basic combat training. Then, participants completed an ecological momentary assessment protocol, in which they reported their momentary mood and completed a short IC assessment twice/day for 2 weeks. A hierarchical linear modeling analysis revealed that psychological resilience moderated the relationship between momentary IC and momentary mood, such that better IC was associated with better mood only for those with higher, but not l...
Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy servic... more Background: Telehealth can assist with providing accessible pediatric occupational therapy services. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and concurrent validity of the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT) as a video-conference-based graphomotor examination for children (GIFT-Online). Methodology: A community-based sample of 157 children aged 3 to 7 years was screened using the GIFT-Online. Findings: Inter-rater reliability was excellent ( r = 0.97; p < .001; n = 40). In addition, significant correlations were found between the total GIFT-Online scores and the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ’07), the Little DCDQ (LDCDQ) ( r = 0.29, p < .001; n = 157), and the Drawing Proficiency Screening Questionnaire (DPSQ) ( r = −0.35, p < .001; n = 157); demonstrating construct and concurrent validity. The online assessment was well received by parents and children. Conclusions: The GIFT-Online was found to be an a...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The current study aimed to examine the unique contribution of personal and environmental factors ... more The current study aimed to examine the unique contribution of personal and environmental factors to explain graphomotor skills in typically developing preschoolers and first-year elementary school students. A convenience sample of 136 Israeli children aged three–seven years was recruited. Graphomotor skills were assessed using the Gilboa Functional Test (GIFT); personal and environmental factors were assessed using a demographic questionnaire and the Home Literacy Experiences Questionnaire (HLEQ). A hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis revealed that home literacy and educational approach accounted for 43.1% of the variance of graphomotor skills (R2 = 40.4, p < 0.000), each providing a unique contribution to the explained variance after controlling for age, gender, and spoken language. Generally, our results supported the bioecological model, with proximal factors (home literacy and educational approach) having a greater influence on child graphomotor skills than dista...
Psychological resilience - the ability to adapt to adversity - is associated with intact inhibito... more Psychological resilience - the ability to adapt to adversity - is associated with intact inhibitory control (IC) mechanisms, which support goal-directed behavior. To date, no study has examined the daily fluctuations of IC performance in relation to resilience. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between IC and mood in young adults in a stressful situation in relation to psychological resilience. A baseline resilience test was conducted on 156 female and male soldiers during their basic combat training. Afterward, participants completed a 2-week ecological momentary assessment protocol, which included reporting their momentary moods and completing an IC assessment twice/day. A hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis revealed that psychological resilience moderated the relationship between momentary IC and momentary mood, with better IC only being associated with better mood for those with higher, but not lower, baseline psychological resilience. This associa...
Multiple internal factors, such as psychological resilience and mental health status, have been s... more Multiple internal factors, such as psychological resilience and mental health status, have been shown to contribute to overall quality of life (QoL). However, very few studies to date have examined how these factors contribute to QoL of youth and young adults in a stressful situation. Here, we studied the contribution of these factors, as well as of ecological momentary mood assessment, to QoL of young army recruits during their Basic Training Combat (BCT). To this end, we collected data from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Using a mobile app installed on participants' phones, participants provided self-reports regarding their mental health status and psychological resilience at baseline, and QoL 2 weeks later. Momentary mood reporting was further collected during the 2-week interval period using a daily self-report mood scale (IMS-12). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine the interrelationships among the ...
Expression and perception of emotions by voice are fundamental for basic mental health stability.... more Expression and perception of emotions by voice are fundamental for basic mental health stability. Since different languages interpret results differently, studies should be guided by the relationship between speech complexity and the emotional perception. The aim of our study was therefore to analyze the efficiency of speech stimuli, word vs. sentence, as it relates to the accuracy of four different categories of emotions: anger, sadness, happiness, and neutrality. To this end, a total of 2,235 audio clips were presented to 49 females, native Hebrew speakers, aged 20–30 years (M = 23.7; SD = 2.13). Participants were asked to judge audio utterances according to one of four emotional categories: anger, sadness, happiness, and neutrality. Simulated voice samples were consisting of words and meaningful sentences, provided by 15 healthy young females Hebrew native speakers. Generally, word vs. sentence was not originally accepted as a means of emotional recognition of voice; However, int...
BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hy... more BACKGROUND Psychological resilience, one’s ability to adapt to adversity or life stressors, is hypothesized to rely on intact mechanisms of cognitive control (CC), i.e., the mental abilities that underlie our goal-directed behavior. These CC mechanisms may further help with emotion regulation during stressful periods. However, CC abilities may fluctuate, and there is no research to date on the daily fluctuations of CC and mood in relation to psychological resilience. OBJECTIVE The goal of the current study was to examine the everyday association between inhibitory control (IC), an integral part of CC, and daily mood in relation to psychological resilience in young adults in a stressful situation. METHODS Data was collected from 156 male and female soldiers in a mixed-gender unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Participants reported their resilience at baseline. Then, during a 2-week period, participants filled out a short momentary mood assessment and completed a short IC assess...
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