ArticlePloS one2017
On the validity and consistency of misjudgment of stepping ability in young and older adults.
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- Misalignment Between Perceived and Actual Ability on a Balance Beam Walking Task.Journal of motor behavior · 2026Article
- Characterising anticipatory postural adjustments in turning a comparison between older adults and people with Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Misalignment between perceived and actual ability on a balance beam walking task.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Older adults do not consistently overestimate their action opportunities across different settings.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aberrant decision-making as a risk factor for falls in aging.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- The influence of postural threat on strategy selection in a stepping-down paradigm.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Crossing the Gap: Older Adults Do Not Create Less Challenging Stepping Stone Configurations Than Young Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Consistency and test-retest reliability of stepping tests designed to measure self-perceived and actual physical stepping ability in older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Does misjudgement in a stepping down paradigm predict falls in an older population?Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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- Do Older Adults Select Appropriate Motor Strategies in a Stepping-Down Paradigm?Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Disparities between perceived and actual physical abilities have been shown in older adults and may lead to balance loss or falls. However, it is unclear whether one's misjudgment is an inherent trait and thus consistent across different tasks, and whether this misjudgment is age-related. We measured the degree of misjudgment in young and older adults on four different stepping tasks; stepping over a raised bar, crossing a declining cord by stepping over it at a self-selected height, crossing a virtual river by stepping over it at a self-selected width, and making a recovery step after release from an inclined position. Before comparison, we carefully checked the validity of the different tasks to determine the misjudgment. No substantial differences were found in the amplitude of the misjudgment between the age groups, and the degree of misjudgment did not transfer across different stepping tasks. However, since only one task (i.e., stepping over a raised bar) met our criteria for validly assessing one's misjudgment, it remains unclear whether the degree of misjudgment is task-specific or an inherent trait. These findings stress the importance of testing the construct validity of the task, prior to the examination of the misjudgment of stepping ability.
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