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Table 5 Pearson’s correlation coefficients among hand-forearm anthropometric and demographic variables with HGS

From: Analysis of hand-forearm anthropometric components in assessing handgrip and pinch strengths of school-aged children and adolescents: a partial least squares (PLS) approach

variables

HGS

Tip to tip

Key

three-jaw chuck

r

p

r

p

r

p

r

p

Age

0.697**

0.000

0.623**

0.000

0.630**

0.000

0.662**

0.000

Stature

0.787**

0.000

0.783**

0.000

0.765**

0.000

0.755**

0.000

Weight

0.351**

0.000

0.411**

0.000

0.428**

0.000

0.383**

0.000

BMI

0.335**

0.001

0.331**

0.001

0.316**

0.001

0.307**

0.001

Hand length

0.845**

0.000

0.876**

0.000

0.892**

0.000

0.835**

0.000

Palm length

0.363**

0.000

0.161

0.165

0.137

0.229

0.171

0.153

Hand breadth across thumb

0.552**

0.000

0.081

0.248

0.131

0.245

0.140

0.227

Hand breadth metacarpal

0.443**

0.000

0.154

0.176

0.117

0.277

0.139

0.230

Hand circumference

0.361**

0.000

0.317**

0.001

0.376**

0.000

0.351**

0.000

Fist length

0.301**

0.001

0.188

0.155

0.171

0.231

0.109

0.334

Fist circumference

0.032

0.361

0.047

0.310

0.127

0.246

0.097

0.360

Maximum Internal grip diameter

0.563**

0.000

0.117

0.293

0.145

0.209

0.107

0.333

Thumb length (digit 1)

0.582**

0.000

0.521**

0.000

0.672**

0.000

0.664**

0.000

Index finger length (digit 2)

0.475**

0.000

0.265*

0.010

0.247*

0.018

0.272*

0.009

Middle finger length (digit 3)

0.478**

0.000

0.320**

0.001

0.318**

0.001

0.302**

0.001

Ring finger length (digit 4)

0.245*

0.015

0.133

0.209

0.145

0.194

0.127

0.231

Pinky finger length (digit 5)

0.210*

0.025

0.143

0.220

0.165

0.151

0.176

0.142

Hand depth

0.108

0.331

0.122

0.282

0.100

0.353

0.087

0.378

Wrist circumference

0.393**

0.000

0.251*

0.012

0.237*

0.020

0.206*

0.030

Forearm Length

0.745**

0.000

0.771**

0.000

0.727**

0.000

0.707**

0.000

Forearm Circumference

0.433**

0.000

0.203*

0.030

0.241*

0.006

0.210*

0.023

  1. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 levels (2-tailed).
  2. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 levels (2-tailed).
  3. Bold numbers are significant at the 0.01 or 0.05 levels (2-tailed).