Cronobiology and their Influences in the Leisure Experiences

Abstract

This research is about a variable without traditions in the leisure studies: the relationship between sleep/ vigil. This question is studied directly by the cronobiology, an area in biology that classifies the people according to your cronotypes in Morningness or Eveningness people. So, the objective of this research was to study how the morningness/eveningness condition influences in the leisure practices, analyzing the possible ways of reordering the work and leisure routine that the people can agree being morningness or eveningness. The technique to obtain the information was the Oral History, using a roadmap issues and a recorder. The interviews was transcribed and analyzed. The research has five morningness participants, five eveningness participants. This research show us that the morningness people haven´t a big difficult in organize your time because the social time are more morningness than eveningness. The night leisure experiences of this kind of people are limited, the most of these experiences correspond a social events and the morning leisure experiences are, usually, more individuals. The eveningness people show more difficult of adaptation in the social time, and the most of the participants have any compulsory activities in the morning. The bohemian leisure, related with bars and parties, is part of the speech of these people. The morningness and the eveningness people share the time of work and leisure, because there is a unique social time, but there is also specific characteristics of a morningness and an eveningness leisure that are present in all the interviews.