Citation

Dane S, Sekertekin MA. Percept. Mot. Skills 2005; 100(3): 743-746.

Affiliation

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16060436

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.

Language: en