The relationship between handedness, anxiety and questionnaire response patterns.

State and trait anxiety were found to be unrelated to the handedness categories distinguished by Annett (1970) in a sample of volunteers (N = 385). Furthermore, mean scores for 99 male subjects did not differ significantly from those of 293 females. The mean anxiety levels in this study were much more representative of the general population than those reported in a previous similar study by Beaton & Moseley (1984). A suggestion that subjects classified as mixed-handed might show a tendency to avoid extreme responses was not supported.