Table 2 Comparison of grip-strength performance and stability control in the young group across the three manual precision tasks for the dominant and non-dominant hands
From: The impact of aging and reaching movements on grip stability control during manual precision tasks
|  | Young group (n = 50) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dominant hand | Non-dominant hand | |||||
F value | Sig. (Two-tailed) | Scheffe post-hoc | F value | Sig. (Two-tailed) | Scheffe post-hoc | |
Strength performance | ||||||
 Grip force (kg) | 0.806 | 0.448 |  | 1.823 | 0.165 |  |
 CV (%) | 57.833 | < 0.001** | Condition 1 < Condition 2 (p < 0.001**) Condition 1 < Condition 3 (p < 0.001**) | 44.356 | < 0.001** | Condition 1 < Condition 2 (p < 0.001**) Condition 1 < Condition 3 (p < 0.001**) |
Strength-stability control | ||||||
 Deviation error (kg) | 0.806 | 0.448 |  | 1.823 | 0.165 |  |
 Absolute error (kg) | 1.295 | 0.277 |  | 0.099 | 0.905 |  |
 Force stability index (%) | 37.789 | < 0.001** | Condition 1 < Condition 2 (p < 0.001**) Condition 1 < Condition 3 (p < 0.001**) | 53.262 | < 0.001** | Condition 1 < Condition 2 (p < 0.001**) Condition 1 < Condition 3 (p < 0.001**) |