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DISSOCIATION IN AMBIDEXTROUS STUDENTS ' ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF AND DIANE MARSDEN
University of Massachusetts at Lowell Summary.-95 students completed Bernscein and Putnam's Dissociative Experiences Scale and Annett's Handedness Questionnaire. Greater dissociation was statistically associated with ambidexterity of these undergraduates. In validating their Dissociative Experiences Scale, Bernstein and Putnam (1986) confirmed that patients with multiple personality disorder more frequently experience 27 dissociative events, events h e finding themselves in clothes which they do not remember putting on. This study examined whether these 27 events are more frequently experienced by ambidextrous college smdents, students who might get dressed "using one hemisphere but might not remember doing so with the other hemisphere." For each of the 27 events on the Dissociative Experiences Scale, 95 college students rated "the percentage of time this [event] happens" on a scale from 0 to 100% of the time. In addition, these 95 subjects indicated whether they used the righr hand, left hand, or either hand in each of the 12 activities on Annett's (1967) Handedness Questionnaire. Using either hand in more activities-holding a racquet, striking a match, etc.-was indicative o f greater ambidexterity. On the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the experienced frequency of the 27 dissociative events, pooled together, ranged from 1.0 to 84.2% of the time ( M = 19.0%, SD = 13.4) and was positively skewed (gl = 1.76, p< ,001). O n the Handedness Questionnaire, the number of ambidextrous activities employing either hand ranged from 0 activities (n = 44) to 8 activities (n = 1) and also was positively skewed ( g l = 1.475, p
O Perceptual and Motor SkiIIs 1991
DISSOCIATION IN AMBIDEXTROUS STUDENTS ' ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF AND DIANE MARSDEN
University of Massachusetts at Lowell Summary.-95 students completed Bernscein and Putnam's Dissociative Experiences Scale and Annett's Handedness Questionnaire. Greater dissociation was statistically associated with ambidexterity of these undergraduates. In validating their Dissociative Experiences Scale, Bernstein and Putnam (1986) confirmed that patients with multiple personality disorder more frequently experience 27 dissociative events, events h e finding themselves in clothes which they do not remember putting on. This study examined whether these 27 events are more frequently experienced by ambidextrous college smdents, students who might get dressed "using one hemisphere but might not remember doing so with the other hemisphere." For each of the 27 events on the Dissociative Experiences Scale, 95 college students rated "the percentage of time this [event] happens" on a scale from 0 to 100% of the time. In addition, these 95 subjects indicated whether they used the righr hand, left hand, or either hand in each of the 12 activities on Annett's (1967) Handedness Questionnaire. Using either hand in more activities-holding a racquet, striking a match, etc.-was indicative o f greater ambidexterity. On the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the experienced frequency of the 27 dissociative events, pooled together, ranged from 1.0 to 84.2% of the time ( M = 19.0%, SD = 13.4) and was positively skewed (gl = 1.76, p< ,001). O n the Handedness Questionnaire, the number of ambidextrous activities employing either hand ranged from 0 activities (n = 44) to 8 activities (n = 1) and also was positively skewed ( g l = 1.475, p
