Sentence examples for instrumental functioning from inspiring English sources

A number of clinical studies have emphasized the burden of OCD across different domains, including higher rates of divorce and separation than in subjects without OCD [ 13] and significantly impaired instrumental functioning (work, school, home making and family life) [ 38- 41].

However, if left untreated, ADHD is associated with significantly higher likelihood of difficulties in basic functioning (self-care, mobility and cognition), instrumental functioning (social-role and productiveness) and poorer outcome than for individuals who are treated for ADHD [ 20, 21].

The levels of personal and instrumental functioning (the dependent variables) were reported by the next of kin at all assessments and classified using Lawton and Brody's Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (P-ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale (I-ADL) [ 4].

This longitudinal investigation was designed to determine the association between the positive symptoms of psychosis and instrumental work functioning among patients with schizophrenia in comparison to patients with affective disorders.

Lonely people perform instrumental functions as if they truly were interchangeable parts in a great machine.

With her they make saturnine but identifiable pop; this record, slow and shimmery and entirely instrumental, functions differently.

These terms may be translated, in the present context, as the cognitive, the expressive, and the conative (or instrumental) functions.

The most influential advocate for its instrumental function, Frederick Taylor, argued that the function of managers was to increase efficiency and maximize their enterprises' returns.

During the GC response, several types of immune cell collaborate with B cells in the follicles, where follicular helper T (TFH) cells have an instrumental function.

(b) Providing instrumental knowledge that allows policy-makers to assess and evaluate the likely consequences of each policy option (pragmatic or instrumental function).

The method involves the use of a liquid reference sample so that it becomes free of instrumental function influence due to effects dependent on the detection cell, the frequency dependence of the microphone response and of the involved electronics.