[The use of spare time and personality]

This paper intends a comparative analysis of personality traits likely to be found in two groups of subjects, namely people happy, or unhappy with the use they make of their spare time. The random-selected, quota sampling sample involved 300 Argentine subjects (37% male subjects, 63% female subjects) aged 15 to 22, from different social-economic levels. All subjects were living in the city of Buenos Aires. The technique of profile analysis for 2 independent groups was applied. Once the hypothesis of parallelism was refuted, it was decided that the simple variance technique should be resorted to. From the 16 variance analysis performed (i.e. one for each personality factor), statistically significant differences--with a 5% risk level--were found out among the groups as regards the following factors only: Factor C (Emotional instability, or Ego weakness-Higher ego strength), Factor H (Threctia-Parmia), Factor O (Untroubled adequacy-Guilt proneness), and Factor Q4 (Low ergic tension-High ergic tension).