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Handedness, symptom reporting, and accident susceptibility
Author(s) -
Merckelbach Harald,
Muris Peter,
Kop Willem Johan
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199405)50:3<389::aid-jclp2270500310>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - psychology , accident (philosophy) , clinical psychology , cross sectional study , psychiatry , developmental psychology , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
A cross‐sectional design was used to examine the relationship among handedness, self‐reported symptoms, and accident susceptibility in a nonclinical sample ( N = 285). Left‐handedness was not found to be associated with elevated symptom reporting (and, consequently, health problems) and accident susceptibility. Thus, the present findings do not support the hypothesis that left‐handedness is accompanied by reduced physical fitness or accident proneness.