04 Effects of Handedness and Gender on Creativity of Students

Abstract

The present study aimed at exploring the effect of handedness on creativity level of students. Furthermore, this study also intended to find out gender differences in creativity level of students. The sample of this study comprised of 160 students with equal number of left and right handers (n = 80). Each category of handedness included 40 girls and 40 boys. The participants of the study were students of 8th to 10th grades who were purposively selected from various English Medium Schools of Sargodha city. Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire (Oldfield, 1971) was used to determine the handedness of students. The Abbreviated Version of Wallach Kogan Creativity Test (Riaz, 1978) was administered to measure the creativity level of left and right handed students. Results of this study indicated that left handed students were significantly more creative than their right handed counterparts; girls were also found to be significantly more creative than the boys.