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Relationship between laterality and anxiety.
Polánská, Aneta ; Hroníková, Linda (advisor) ; Schierová, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis deals with the question of laterality, specifically the well-known phenomenon of right-handedness and left-handedness and their possible connection to anxiosity. The principal aim is to relate to and verify the body of existing studies and broaden it with a comparison of preferred laterality based on a questionnaire of self-assessment. In the ability part of the testing, the participants' performance in manual tasks by using their preferred handedness were compared; the premise being that with a long term development and systematic use of the preferred hand the two pursued parts, i.e. the questionnaire and performance, will be in accord. The presented master's thesis is divided into two parts. The first part, theoretical, comprises of the evaluation of the findings in laterality to present day, the laterality diagnostics, the source of laterality occurrence, etc. Among other things within the thesis, methodological shortcomings in the research of laterality are continuously pointed out. The practical part introduces a research project with the aim to provide answers to the above-mentioned questions; more specifically, we focused on the fact whether the left-handed people are more susceptible to anxiosity than the right-handed people; whether there are discrepancies in the subjectively...
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