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LEFT‐HANDEDNESS
Author(s) -
William Moodie
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb02313.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , medicine , computer science , library science
3265 or 7.6% of the 42,925 youths are left-handed. Whether or not the left-handedness is genuine and what type of therapy, if any, the have been subjected to, has not been able to study in this investigation. All analysed connections give very low correlations. The most pronounced association is with intellectual capacity but even that is not striking (C.C. 0.020). Left-handedness tends to occur more often amongst the least talented, 8.7%, than amongst the very gifted, 6.4% (fig. 145). 17. S% of left-handed youths have been given psychiatric diagnoses compared with 16.5% of the right-handed ones. Neither the somatic, psychical nor social factors which have been analysed reveal any noteworthy differentials or connections. Psychical energy is somewhat worse (C.C. 0.020) amongst left-handed youths than the others. Regression analysis gives no significant results. Summary. The almost 8% of youths who were left-handed are not noticeably different from the others.