How to Detect Personality Traits Through Handwriting

You can understand yourself and others better through a basic understanding of the study of handwriting (graphology) to determine the character and personality of the individual.

Difficulty:

Moderately challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Stationery
• Writing Pens

1. Note whether your handwriting slants to the right, left, or is upright. Do you write with heavy, moderate, or light pressure? These are emotional indicators.

2. Analyze mental ability by looking at whether your handwriting has arced, needlelike, or printed (not cursive) connections. The slant also tells you something about mental ability.

3. Do your t-bars cross the t-stems above, at, or below the middles of the t-stems? Are your t-bars long and heavy, long and light, short and heavy, or short and light? Analysis of this tells about your goals.

4. Are your t-stems and d-stems: tall, moderate, or short? Do you loop your t-stems and d-stems? Do your t-bars cross the t-stems above, at, or below the middles of the t-stems? These are indicators of self-image.

5. Combine the answers to slant, loops of d-stems and t-stems, with information on whether you write the lower parts of y, g, j with large, small, or incomplete loops ' or straight downstrokes. This will tell you about your social skills.

6. Understand your modes of communication by analyzing whether your o's and a's are closed at the top, whether you have narrow handwriting, and whether your o's and a's have right, left, no loops.

7. Determine your general attitude by looking at slant along with your i dots (right, left, or elsewhere in relation to stem), and by figuring out if your handwriting dominates the lower, upper, or middle zone.

8. Buy a book so you can match your handwriting to real examples and do your own handwriting analysis.

9. Check into websites that offer handwriting analysis.

Tips & Warnings

• Many teachers and parents use handwriting analysis not only for the purpose of vocational or career guidance, but also to help resolve young peoples' fears and anxieties.