title: A lower incidence of left-handed writing among young adults in Bulgaria than in the USA.
abstract: The incidence of left-handed writing among 590 young Bulgarian adults was 6.4%, significantly lower than that reported in two studies of students in the United States. Of those writing with the right hand, 10.8% stated that they had been forced to change their preferred hand for writing. The parents of the Bulgarian sample had a similar low incidence of left-handed writing (5.9%). Left-handed writing was almost three times more likely if one or both of the parents wrote with the left hand.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pollard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002031:Bulgaria; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D014481:United States