Relationship Between Personality and Handwriting Using Eysenck Test

Ashraf Karami

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Relationship Between Personality and Handwriting Using Eysenck Test

Ashraf Karami

Published in International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Received: 11 January 2017 Accepted: 29 January 2017 Published: 10 March 2017

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Abstract

This study attempts to examine ways of writing (handwriting) include: pen pressure, the character size, the distance between the rows, words and letters, the base line, stand line, punctuation of punctual letters, with introvert and extrovert personality, emotional stability- instability (neuroticism) and psychotic features associated with them and study the relationship between these variables using the Eysenck personality questionnaire (adult). The sample used in this study consists of 68 people among the members of community (Miyaneh city in Iran, regardless of their job and position) randomly including 36 women and 32 men. In this study Eysenck Tests questionnaire is used in the form of 90 questions. Chi-squared test results show that there is a significant relation with 99% confidence level between all studied variables in handwriting and the kind of personality characteristics. According to the results, personality of people couldn’t be realized based on just one variable and different variables of personality must taking into account in the handwriting judge. In general, it may be judged that (a) In society, number of people with unstable extrovert personality is more; (b) the amount of instable people is more than stable and (c) the number of extroverts is more than introverts.

Published in	International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijpbs.20170202.11
Page(s)	28-39
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Handwriting, Personality Character, Eysenck Test, Graphology, Chi-squared Test

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