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The effect of leisure activities on life satisfaction: The Importance of Holiday Trips. In recent years, the phenomenon of happiness has been receiving increased interest. People want to know what can possibly make them happier. Generally speaking, there are two ways to improve happiness, one is to change one's view on life and the other is to change one's way of life. The latter way is promising since approximately 40% of variance in happiness is attributable to intentional activity. | THE EFFECT OF LEISURE ACTIVITIES ON LIFE SATISFACTION The Importance of Holiday Trips Jeroen Nawijn 1 and Ruut Veenhoven 2 I. Brdar ed. The Human Pursuit of Well-Being A Cultural Approach. Springer Science 2011 pp 39-53 ISBN 978-94-007-1374-1. DOI 978-94-007-1375-8 4. In recent years the phenomenon of happiness has been receiving increased interest. People want to know what can possibly make them happier. Generally speaking there are two ways to improve happiness one is to change one s view on life and the other is to change one s way of life. The latter way is promising since approximately 40 of variance in happiness is attributable to intentional activity Lyubomirksy. Sheldon. Schkade. 2005 . Still there is a lack of knowledge of what ways of life are the most satisfying and in particular about the happiness revenues of different leisure activities. 1 RESEARCH INTO HAPPINESS AND LEISURE Happiness researchers are quite knowledgeable on the subject of work but less so on leisure. The World Database of Happiness currently lists 585 correlations between work and happiness and only 91 correlations between leisure activities and happiness Veenhoven 2008 . Thus the effect of work on happiness is a well-explored area of research but far less is known about how participating in leisure activities affects happiness. Work leisure and happiness are interrelated Haworth. 1997 . For example the number of working hours has a strong negative effect on leisure satisfaction whereas the effect of the number of hours spent on leisure has only a small positive effect on leisure satisfaction Van Praag Frijters Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2003 . Happiness and Leisure Satisfaction The subjective evaluation of different aspects of life is known to correlate fairly strongly with life satisfaction Ateca-Amestoy Serrano-del-Rosal Vera-Toscano 2008 Lloyd Auld 2002 Van Praag Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2004 Van Praag et al 2003 . Evaluations of finance health and job satisfaction together with .

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• The effect of leisure activities
• Life satisfaction
• Importance of Holiday Trips
• Happiness and Leisure Activities
• Happiness and Tourism
• Aim of This Chapter
• Business communication
• Networked world
• Interpersonal communication
• Business messages
• Creating business messages
• AIM planning process
• Persuasive messages