Note on Hand Preference of Japanese People
Note on Hand Preference of Japanese People
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日本人的手型偏好注意事项
DOI：
10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.530
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发表时间：
1976
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Zenjiro Nakatsuka
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作者：
T. Hatta;Zenjiro Nakatsuka
人们普遍认为，不仅是生物因素，而且环境因素影响手偏好的确定。虽然有各种各样的结果被报道，但据认为，盎格鲁-撒克逊人口的5%至10%是左撇子。根据Clark（1957）的研究结果，8.0%的男学生和5.9%的女学生是左撇子，而Dennis（1958）的研究结果显示，在黎巴嫩，5.0%的男学生和4.9%的女学生是左撇子。从这些数据中，我们推断，在不同的文化社会中，手偏好的性别差异。虽然在西方人群中左撇子的频率存在显著的性别差异，但近东地区的差异在统计学上并不显著。本研究提供了更多的数据在远东人口的手偏好的文化比较。这项研究于1974年和1975年在日本大坂的几所大学和办公室进行。用Ham和Nakatsuka量表（1975）对1,199人（488名男性和711名女性）进行了手部偏好评估。这个清单有10个关于日常生活中每只手使用偏好的问题，即，擦、划火柴（火柴）、用剪刀剪、用刀（不带叉）、用螺丝刀、刮胡子、锤击、钉住、刷牙、扔。如果受试者得分为+10，则判定其为完全右撇子，而当其得分为-10时，判定其为完全左撇子。这是根据最新的心理测量方法（Hatta & Nakatsuka，1975）设计的。结果显示，3.09%的人是左撇子。其中，男性占4.30%，女性占2.25%。性别差异有统计学意义（xa = 4.08，df = 1）.然而，这些结果表明，左撇子的频率是在日本样本比盎格鲁-撒克逊人少。可以认为，在使用左手到右手的过程中，人们积极地进行了纠正，特别是在日本的女性中，因为当用左手书写时，日语字母的特征比西方字母更难。然而，这种性别差异的趋势似乎与西方的相似，而不是近东的特征。从我们的研究结果，虽然有相当大的西方和远东群体之间的文化差异，在日本的态度，文化条件，社会规范和儿童抚养的做法，就利手是类似的西方。
It is commonly accepted that not only the biological but also the environmental factors influence the determination of hand preference. While a variety of results have been reported, it is considered that 5 to 10% of the Anglo-Saxon population are lefthanded. According to the results of Clark (1957), 8.0% of male and 5.9% of female students were left-handed, but Dennis (1958) reported that 5.0% of male and 4.9% of female were left-handed in Lebanon. From such data, we infer that sex differences in hand-preference appear in different cultural societies. Although there is outstanding sex difference in frequency of left-handedness in the Western population, the difference in the Near Eastern is not statistically significant. The present study provides additional data on cultural comparisons of hand-preference in a Far Eastern population. The study was conducted at several colleges and offices in Osaka, Japan, in I974 and 1975. A total of 1,199 people, 488 males and 711 females were evaluated for hand-preference with the H a m and Nakatsuka inventory (1975). This inventory has 10 questions about preference for the use of each hand in daily life, i.e., rubbing out, striking a match (match), cutting with scissors, using a knife (without fork), using a screwdriver, shaving, hammering, pinning down, tooth brushing, throwing. The subject is judged to be fully right-handed if he scores +10 and as fully left-handed when he scores -10. This was designed for use on the basis of the latest psychometric method (Hatta & Nakatsuka, 1975). Results showed that 3.09% of people were left-handed. Among those, there were 4.30% male and 2.25% female lefthanders. The sex difference was statistically significant at the level of 5 % ( xa = 4.08, d f = 1) . However, those results indicate that the frequency of left-handedness is less in Japanese samples than in the Anglo-Saxon ones. It might be considered that the correction in use of the left hand to the right is actively made, especially among females in Japan for the features of Japanese letters are more difficult than the Western letters, when they are written with the left hand. Nevertheless, this tendency toward a sex difference seems similar to the Western one bur not to Near Eastern characteristics. From our results, although there are considerable cultural differences between the Western and the Far Eastern groups, the attitudes, cultural conditioning, social norms and child-rearing practices with respect to handedness in Japan are similar to the Western ones.