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The Handedness Index Practical Task (HI20): An economic behavioural measure for assessing manual preference.
- Source :
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Laterality . May2022, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p273-307. 35p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Because self-report hand preference measures are limited to investigating cognitive aspects of manual laterality, valid, easy-to-administer and economic behavioural methods are needed for capturing the motoric component of handedness. Therefore, this study introduces the Handedness Index Practical Task (HI20) and tests it in a sample of 206 students (Mage = 23.79 years, SDage = 3.01 years), half of whom were self-specified left-handers. After confirming good reliabilities at the subscale and total scale levels, k-means cluster analysis allowed an empirically based partitioning of test subjects into left- (n = 72), mixed- (n = 23) and right-handers (n = 111). To validate this categorization and the HI20 index, data were compared with the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI), EHI-short, HI22 and hand grip strength. The congruency between the HI20 clusters and alternative categorizations ranged from 95.6% to 84.0%, while the clusters explained large portions of variance in grip strength differences. The HI20 sub- and total scores showed strong correlations with other measures of lateral preference. Altogether, the freely available HI20 emerges as a reliable and valid alternative for behavioural handedness assessment, whose power lies in explaining differential hand use patterns and enabling fine-grained examinations of handedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1357650X
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Laterality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156316594
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2021.1990312