The Relationship Between Well-being and Serious Leisure-travel with Social Support and Intercultural Communication Competence as the Moderator

Abstract

More and more developed countries focus on people’s well-being and even take well-being into consideration when they make policies. In Taiwan, government also set up a unit to measure and examines Taiwanese well-being every year. Besides, recently, Taiwanese employees value employee welfare when looking for jobs and among various welfares, travel allowance is at top three. In this study, the purpose was to examine the relationship among serious leisure-travel, well-being, intercultural communication competence (ICC) and social support. A total of 302 Taiwanese employees with overseas travel experience from 2013 to 2014 participated in this study and quantitative approach was adopted. A pilot study, item analysis, peer review and expert review were used to examine validity and reliability of this study. Besides, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted to analyze hypotheses. The results show serious leisure-travel is positively related to well-being but ICC and social support have no moderating effect on the relationship between serious leisure-travel and well-being.More and more developed countries focus on people’s well-being and even take well-being into consideration when they make policies. In Taiwan, government also set up a unit to measure and examines Taiwanese well-being every year. Besides, recently, Taiwanese employees value employee welfare when looking for jobs and among various welfares, travel allowance is at top three. In this study, the purpose was to examine the relationship among serious leisure-travel, well-being, intercultural communication competence (ICC) and social support. A total of 302 Taiwanese employees with overseas travel experience from 2013 to 2014 participated in this study and quantitative approach was adopted. A pilot study, item analysis, peer review and expert review were used to examine validity and reliability of this study. Besides, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis were conducted to analyze hypotheses. The results show serious leisure-travel is positively related to well-being but ICC and social support have no moderating effect on the relationship between serious leisure-travel and well-being.