Developments in Social Sciences

Abstract

Among the recreational activities that enable the recovery and improve the life-satisfaction of employees, holiday travel is defined the leisure activity that theindividual attribute the highest importance (Nawijn & Veenhoven, 2011). As a matterof fact, holiday trips are nine times more effective in improving life satisfaction of theindividual when compared to cultural activities, six times more efficient whencompared to handiwork, repairs and going to the church, and four and a half times moreeffective compared to family visits, thus explaining the significance of holiday trips inan individual’s life. It was also found that holidays were the only variable with asignificant effect on life satisfaction when age, gender, marital status, education,income, occupation, personality and health conditions were controlled. Thus, unlikeother studies, the present study focused mainly on work-holiday interferencespecifically rather than work-leisure interference that wasscrutinized by most studies.Based on the abovementioned facts, the present study aimed to investigate thedirect effects of the social support at work on work-holiday interference and therecovery experience of the individual in holidays and its indirect effects on perceivedholiday satisfaction.