Relationship between occupational performance measures and adjustment in a sample of university students

Editorial

“…In the first of two articles addressing university students, Keptner (2019) examines the relationship between occupational performance, measured using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, and student adaptation, measured using the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire. Placing this study within a broader context in which students in the United States are experiencing increasing difficulty transitioning to and completing university level education, Keptner adds an occupational perspective to existing research on adjustment to university that has often used a psychological lens.…”

“…Much scholarship in occupational science has focused on transitions, that is, processes of change; for example, transitions connected to the life course, changes in bodily capacities, and shifts in space and place (Crider, Calder, Bunting, & Forwell, 2015). Articles in this issue address transitions of university students (Keptner, 2019;Murphy & Stevenson, 2019), later life workers (Hovbrandt, Carlsson, Nilsson, Albin, & Håkansson, 2019;Voss et al, 2019), refugees and asylum seekers (Morville & Jessen-Winge, 2019;Raanass, Aase, & Huot, 2019), and persons who are incorporating assistive technologies into their lives (Larsen, Hounsgaard, Brandt, & Kristensen, 2019;Steel, 2019). These articles demonstrate that in times of transition the taken-for-granted nature of occupations can be fractured; occupations may be challenged, reconfigured, discovered, and mobilized as transitions are navigated across time and place.…”

Refining the psychometric properties of the Trinity Student Occupational Performance Profile – A self-report measure of occupational performance difficulties within the student role

“…Moreover, Keptner and Rogers (2018) used the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (Law et al, 2005) to investigate the occupational performance concerns of the general student population but needed to adapt the measure to include questions which were more relevant to university students. Keptner (2018) further highlighted the need for a tool which accurately identifies a student's occupational performance concerns and self-perceptions of performance.…”

“…It is estimated that globally, one third of newly entered college students experience difficulties with their mental health (Auerbach et al, 2018). Transitioning to higher education requires students to make academic, social and personal adjustments as they navigate the autonomous institutional environment of university (Baker and Siryk, 1984), all of which impact on a student’s occupational performance (Keptner and Rogers, 2018) and satisfaction with occupational performance (Keptner, 2018). These occupational performance difficulties can include difficulties with social-related occupations, time management, academic-related occupations, sleep, managing stress and managing money (Keptner and Rogers, 2018).…”