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| Title |
Footedness Is Associated with Self-reported Sporting Performance and Motor Abilities in the General Population
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01199 |
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| Authors |
Ulrich S Tran, Martin Voracek |
| Abstract |
Left-handers may have strategic advantages over right-handers in interactive sports and innate superior abilities that are beneficial for sports. Previous studies relied on differing criteria for handedness classification and mostly did not investigate mixed preferences and footedness. Footedness appears to be less influenced by external and societal factors than handedness. Utilizing latent class analysis and structural equation modeling, we investigated in a series of studies (total N > 15300) associations of handedness and footedness with self-reported sporting performance and motor abilities in the general population. Using a discovery and a replication sample (ns = 7658 and 5062), Study 1 revealed replicable beneficial effects of mixed-footedness and left-footedness in team sports, martial arts and fencing, dancing, skiing, and swimming. Study 2 (n = 2592) showed that footedness for unskilled bipedal movement tasks, but not for skilled unipedal tasks, was beneficial for sporting performance. Mixed- and left-footedness had effects on motor abilities that were consistent with published results on better brain interhemispheric communication, but also akin to testosterone-induced effects regarding flexibility, strength, and endurance. Laterality effects were only small. Possible neural and hormonal bases of observed effects need to be examined in future studies. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Denmark | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 4 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 76 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 20% |
| Unknown | 19 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 25 | 33% |
| Psychology | 8 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 21 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 December 2022.
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#76
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