title: Differences in handedness and scores of aggressiveness and interpersonal relations of soccer players.
abstract: Handedness and differences in interpersonal relations and aggressiveness were studied in 33 right-handed (M age=22.9 yr., SD=4.9) and 18 left-handed (M age=22.5 yr., SD=2.4) male soccer players who played actively in professional soccer leagues of Turkey. Hand preference on the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory and scores for destructiveness, assertiveness, and passive aggressiveness on a Turkish Aggressiveness Inventory, plus scores for sociability, benevolence, tenderheartedness, tolerance, and insistence on the Turkish Interpersonal Relations Inventory were examined. Mean destructive aggressiveness was higher for the left- than the right-handed athletes. Means on tolerance and insistence were higher for the right- than the left-handed athletes. Higher aggressiveness and less tolerance and insistence in the left-handers may be associated with their higher sports performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Senol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dane
authors.forename: Mehmet Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sekertekin
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012916:Soccer / Q000502:physiology*