Hand test has four major domains which are interpersonal, environmental, maladjustive and withdrawal (Jessica 2010; Anjum and Batool, 2017); their brief description is as follows:
0.45 and highest kappa was found in failure and exhibition as 1 each whereas for the main categories it remained 0.92 for interpersonal, 0.75 for environmental, 0.83 for maladjustive and 0.71 for withdrawal.
Interpersonal, environmental, maladjustive and withdrawal as well as their sub categories along with types of sample.
Maladjustive: It comprises of tension (feels and express pressure e.g.
Moreover, results also reveal that out of four domains of Modified Hand Test, correlation was significant at .01 level for interpersonal, maladjustive, and withdrawal whereas for environmental it was statistically significant at .05 level (Table 3).
interpersonal .40, environment .28, maladjustive .37 and withdrawal as .54.
By choosing romantic fiction to illustrate incongruent communication patterns we want to point at the harm done by this genre, when it propagates maladjustive behaviors among the millions of readers who have a central role in establishing communication within their families.