Handedness, anxiety and sex differences.
Anxiety scores of 35 male and 35 female students (28 right-handers, 23 left-handers and 19 mixed-handers) were assessed in relation to the handedness classification of each individual. Females were found to show higher anxiety scores than were males; but in contradiction to previous findings, left-handers and mixed-handers were not found to be more anxious than right-handers. Extremes of handedness, however, were closely related to anxiety scores, with the strongly right-handed and the strongly left-handed both showing higher anxiety scores than those whose hand preferences were less extreme.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008347:Manifest Anxiety Scale; D012737:Sex Factors