Field-Dependence and Performance on a Writing Task
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 38 (2) , 651-658
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1974.38.2.651
Abstract
Timed writing samples were obtained from 50 female psychiatric inpatients. Patients were assigned on the basis of their scores on the rod-and-frame rest to extreme field-dependent and field-independent groups. Compared to field-independent persons, the field-dependent patients took significantly greater times to complete the writing task. In spite of the longer times, three independent raters found the field-dependent writing less legible, less well oriented on the page, less neat, and generally poorer in over-all quality than the field-independent writing. Findings are discussed in terms of possible dominant (left) cerebral hemisphere involvement in field-dependence.Keywords
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