ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the relationship between individual differences (personality) and non-occupational behaviours, i.e. behaviours outside of work. There are various typologies which have attempted to set out the precise relationship between work and non-work, usually leisure (Furnham, 1990b). A general assumption is that some individual difference factors (needs, traits, motives) determine the choice of, and satisfaction in, work but that when work is not being done (through retirement, unemployment) these factors also influence the choice of activities after work. Naturally, some areas have attracted more and better research than others. It is probably true to say, however, that personality theorists have in general paid remarkably little attention to the three dependent variables examined in this chapter.
