Personal Preference and Quality of Reach in Healthy Adult Women

Abstract

This study has shown that preference may not be an influential factor when performing simple reaches for magazines. Although there was a difference between the neutrally preferred and least preferred conditions, the goal when reaching during the neutrally preferred condition may have been different (i.e., to glean more information from the magazine cover) than when reaching in the least preferred condition (e.g., to reach for and discard the magazine as quickly as possible). These results reflect the complexity involved in the formation of meaning, of which preference is a part. Further exploration of individual preferences as well as personal goal formation and their impact on success in occupations of daily living is needed.

Influence of Purposeful Activities on Upper Extremity Motor Performance: A Systematic Review

“…Characteristics of the studies and main results are presented in Table 4. The purposeful activities used in the studies included: personal care (Taylor et al, 2018); writing (Ross & Nelson, 2000;Wu et al, 1994); eating (Hall & Nelson, 1998); using chopsticks (Ma et al, 1999;Rice et al, 2009); reaching for candy (Sackaloo et al, 2015), a mug (Holubar & Rice, 2006;Rice et al, 2009), a bell (Lin et al, 1998;Morton et al, 1992) or a magazine (Rice & Renock, 2006); meal preparation tasks (e.g., slicing vegetables or making cookies) (Fasoli et al, 2002;Hoppe et al, 2008;Miller & Nelson, 1987;Rice et al, 1999;Wu et al, 1998); woodwork or handcrafts (Bakshi et al, 1991); and board or computer games, throwing darts or ping-pong (Kehoe & Rice, 2016;King, 1993;Steinbeck, 1986;Wagner et al, 1995).…”

“…Movement time was measured in 13 studies, with eight studies reporting quicker movement during the purposeful activity condition (Fasoli et al, 2002;Holubar & Rice, 2006;Lin et al, 1998;Rice et al, 2009;Ross & Nelson, 2000;Sackaloo et al, 2015;Wu et al, 1994) or virtual reality (Kehoe & Rice, 2016). Large effects were demonstrated in two of these studies (Fasoli et al, 2002; Kehoe Bakshi et al 19911 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 11 Fasoli et al (2002) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 15 Hall and Nelson (1998) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 14 Holubar and Rice (2006) 1 1 1 2 1 1 11 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 18 Hoppe et al 20081 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 13 Kehoe and Rice 20161 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17 King (1993) 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 Lin et al (1998) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 13 Ma et al (1999) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 15 Miller and Nelson (1987) et al (1992) 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 10 Rice et al 19991 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 13 Rice et al 20091 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 14 Rice and Renock (2006) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 16 Ross and Nelson (2000) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 14 Sackaloo et al 20151 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 15 Steinbeck (1986) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 14 Taylor et al 20181…”

“…Eleven studies measured movement units, an indicator of movement smoothness calculated by summing the number of times acceleration went from negative to positive to negative (Holubar & Rice, 2006;Kehoe & Rice, 2016). Seven of these studies showed small to medium effects of purposeful activity in producing fewer movement units (Rice et al, 1999;Ross & Nelson, 2000;Wu et al, 1994), when participants used their own objects (Holubar & Rice, 2006), reached for preferred items during the experiment (Rice & Renock, 2006;Sackaloo et al, 2015), or were visually exposed to the objects for longer periods of time (Rice et al, 2009). Fasoli et al (2002) demonstrated a large effect size for one of the four activities (hammering).…”

“…Several studies investigated the relative effect that objects and materials have on motor performance during an occupation (Holubar & Rice, 2006;Rice & Renock, 2006;Sackaloo et al, 2015). In those studies, movement speed and smoothness were enhanced in participants who reached for a personally owned or preferred object.…”

“…Smoothness and coordination were measured by the number of times that acceleration and deceleration occurred in succession during a movement (movement units) (Rice & Renock, 2006). Generally, fewer movement units are associated with smoother motion (Holubar & Rice, 2006).…”