Performance Patterns of Occupation and Life Balance

Performance Patterns

• Performance patterns are acquired habits, routines, roles, and rituals used in engaging consistently in occupations, which can support or hinder occupational performance.
• They establish lifestyles and occupational balance of time spent in occupations, shaped by context and cultural norms.

Types of Performance Patterns

• Habits: specific, automatic behaviors performed repeatedly with little variation.

  • Useful Habit: organizes time and resources.
  • Dominating Habit: interferes with optimal performance.
  • Impoverished Habit: difficulty learning new useful habits.

• Routines: involve sequencing and combining processes, procedures, and multiple steps to provide structure and flow.

  • Helpful Routines: beneficial routines.
  • Damaging Routines: harmful routines.

• Roles: normative models for behavior, shaped by culture and society, dynamic, and provide a sense of purpose, identity, and structure.

  • Disrupted Roles: can be disrupted, altered, or ended.

• Rituals: reflect one's culture, have strong elements of symbolism, and provide a sense of meaning and identity.

  • Transitional Rituals: mark transitions from one state to another.

Occupational Balance

• Occupational Balance: perception that one's patterns of everyday activities (occupations) are satisfactory and include a range of meaningful occupations.
• Healthy Lifestyle: balance between occupations leads to a healthy lifestyle.

Life Balance

• Life Balance: satisfying pattern of daily activities that is healthful, meaningful, and sustainable to a person within the context of their life.

• Relationship between Occupational Patterns and Life Outcomes: links between occupational patterns, life outcomes, and the environment.

• Life Imbalance: when patterns of daily occupations are perceived to be unsatisfactory, increasing risk for health problems.