The connection between handedness and the three major dimensions of personality revisited: A study among 13- to 15-year-old students in England and Wales

Francis, L.J., Laycock, P. and McKenna, U. (2025) The connection between handedness and the three major dimensions of personality revisited: A study among 13- to 15-year-old students in England and Wales. Laterality. ISSN 1357-650X

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Abstract

Previous studies examining the connections between the Eysenckian dimensions of personality and handedness have often been limited by small samples and by the failure to take sex differences recorded on the personality scales into account. Addressing these limitations, the present study draws on data provided by a sample of 26,730 13- to 15-year-old adolescents who completed the abbreviated form of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, together with a measure of handedness. Binary logistic regression demonstrated that non-right-handedness was significantly associated with toughmindedness (higher psychoticism scores), introversion (lower extraversion scores) and emotional stability (lower neuroticism scores). The fitted logistic model was then calculated to predict probabilities for handedness.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published by Taylor & Francis in 2025. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2025.2602698. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	handedness personality differences sex differences Eysenck adolescents
Depositing User:	Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited:	02 Feb 2026 10:27
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2026 10:27
URI:	https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1294

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