Note on Hand Preference of Japanese People
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (2) , 530
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.530
Abstract
Additional data on cultural comparisons of hand-preference in a Far Eastern population (Osaka, Japan) were obtained using the Hatta and Nakatsuka inventory. Of the Ss [subjects] 3.09% were left-handed, of which 4.30% were male and 2.25% female. The sex difference was statistically significant. Frequency of left-handedness was less in Japanese samples than in the Anglo-Saxon ones. Correction in use of the left hand to the right is actively made especially among females in Japan, as the Japanese script is more difficult than Western letters when written with the left hand. This tendency toward a sex difference seems similar to Western but not to Near Eastern characteristics.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A note on sex equality in the incidence of left-handedness.Journal of Educational Psychology, 1958