ABSTRACT
Among the questions used to differentiate individuals in terms of their introversion—extraversion (I-E) in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) are some that relate to recreational or leisure pursuits, for example, “Do you have many hobbies?”; “I prefer reading to meeting people”; and “Do you tend to keep in the background on social occasions?” To some degree it might be suggested that responses to such questions reflect the sociability of extroverts. However, because recreation and leisure are such a large proportion of human behavior and involve such a variety of possibilities, many different factors are likely to be relevant, for example, the bias toward stimulus analysis in introverts and response organization in extraverts, as suggested by Brebner and Cooper (1974) or Brebner (1983). Differences between the personality groups in their sporting activities have been reviewed by Eysenck, Nias, and Cox (1982), and differences in movement have been considered by Brebner (1985). But, also, previous attempts to assess the characteristic mood and its variability (Hepburn & Eysenck, 1989) or the relative degree of general enjoyment experienced by the two groups from their leisure behavior (Brebner, 1990), suggest there is a possible difference between them.
