Relationships of Lateral Dominance to Scores of Motor Ability and Selected Skill Tests

The study reports an investigation of the incidence of the various laterality preferences among college women, and the relationships of lateral dominance to general motor ability and to skills test scores in archery, badminton, bowling, and tennis. The results indicate that the majority of college women have definite lateral preferences; that women who have mixed eye, hand, and foot dominance are superior in motor ability to those who have homolateral or contralateral preference; that laterality seems to be of importance in activities stressing accuracy of direction toward a fixed target.