scholarly journals „Workaholism“ does not always mean workaholism...? - about the controversial nomenclature in the research on work addiction

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila Wojdyło
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Work Addiction ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
High Work

Abstract This article attempts to point out the main problem in research on workaholism, namely over-use of the term workaholism when describing symptoms or constructs which are not related to work addiction. Workaholism has one, negative pathological/dysfunctional form and can be differentiated from the healthy forms of over-engagement (e.g. work enthusiasm). Based on the analysis of one example of research results, this article explains that the nomenclature of „workaholic“ is not applicable to the case of over-engaged employees with healthy symptoms (e.g. high work involvement and work enjoyment and high or low satisfaction with life situation). The second aim of the article is to argue that the invalid conceptualisation and measurement of workaholism can result in conclusions which do not really regard work addiction.

scholarly journals Gender and Workaholism: A Study of New Zealand Academics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amanda Lea Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Work Addiction ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Gender Perceptions ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

<p>The aim of this study was to examine gender's impact on Workaholism and, in particular, the correlates of 'Workaholism' characteristics (Work Involvement, Drive and Work Enjoyment). The Literature review draws attention to the various definitions developed, providing the source and foundation of the definition used in this study. This thesis defines Workaholism as the tendency towards heavy work investment and involvement (the behavioural dimension) with considerable allocation of time to work-related activities and work-related thoughts and the combination of high-drive with low-enjoyment (the cognitive dimension), which manifests itself in working compulsively and being obsessed with work for reasons that are not derived from external necessity. A sample of 331 New Zealand academic employees from the eight different universities completed a web-based survey measuring 'Workaholism', Workaholism perceptions, hours worked and gender perceptions. Results show that there are differences in the degree of Workaholism and Workaholism-related variables between genders in academics in New Zealand. Furthermore, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between genders in Work Involvement and Drive – females were found to exhibit more of both characteristics. No significant difference between genders in Work Enjoyment was found. Again, there is no significant difference between genders in Workaholism perceptions. There was, however, a significant difference between genders in the proportion of overworkers. These findings provide insight into possible directions for future research as well as potentially influencing treatment for work addiction. In order for this knowledge to directly contribute towards benefiting practitioners further study is needed, leading to the ability to allow actions taken to reduce/prevent Workaholism to be tailored to the specific needs of employees. By understanding gender differences and the individual's perception of their own Workaholism, treatment could be tailored specifically for the individual. The current study suggests that blanket policies designed to promote work-life balance are unlikely to benefit all employees.</p>

scholarly journals The Workaholism Phenomenon in Portugal: Dimensions and Relations with Workplace Spirituality

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 852
Author(s):  
Lisete S. Mónico ◽  
Clara Margaça
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
World Population ◽  
Work Addiction ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Relationship

Workaholism phenomenon affects a quarter of the employed world population. The concept has been used to describe hardworking employees, which is not resulting from external requirements. Considering that organizations with well-developed workplace spirituality have employees more committed to achieving self-development, but also to serve the company, the relationship between workaholism and workplace spirituality is not straightforward, remaining unclear. The principal aim of this research is to analyze the workaholism phenomenon, considering patterns of workaholic and non-workaholic workers and their relationships with dimensions of workplace spirituality. The sample is comprised of a heterogeneous group of 306 Portuguese employees, who were surveyed by the Workaholism Battery, five dimensions of Workplace Spirituality, and a socio-demographic questionnaire. Cluster analysis defined three workaholic profiles (24% of the sample), and five non-workaholic profiles. Workplace spirituality dimensions differed according to worker profile and associations with work involvement, work enjoyment, and compulsive work addiction. Enthusiastic addicts and work enthusiasts showed the highest workplace spirituality, contrasting mainly with Reluctant hard worker, Disenchanted workers, and Unengaged workers, but also with work addicts. Workaholism is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, whose dimensions are distinctly related to workplace spirituality. Workplace spirituality development can promote a more balanced and healthy relationship with work.

scholarly journals Gender and Workaholism: A Study of New Zealand Academics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amanda Lea Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Work Addiction ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Gender Perceptions ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

<p>The aim of this study was to examine gender's impact on Workaholism and, in particular, the correlates of 'Workaholism' characteristics (Work Involvement, Drive and Work Enjoyment). The Literature review draws attention to the various definitions developed, providing the source and foundation of the definition used in this study. This thesis defines Workaholism as the tendency towards heavy work investment and involvement (the behavioural dimension) with considerable allocation of time to work-related activities and work-related thoughts and the combination of high-drive with low-enjoyment (the cognitive dimension), which manifests itself in working compulsively and being obsessed with work for reasons that are not derived from external necessity. A sample of 331 New Zealand academic employees from the eight different universities completed a web-based survey measuring 'Workaholism', Workaholism perceptions, hours worked and gender perceptions. Results show that there are differences in the degree of Workaholism and Workaholism-related variables between genders in academics in New Zealand. Furthermore, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between genders in Work Involvement and Drive – females were found to exhibit more of both characteristics. No significant difference between genders in Work Enjoyment was found. Again, there is no significant difference between genders in Workaholism perceptions. There was, however, a significant difference between genders in the proportion of overworkers. These findings provide insight into possible directions for future research as well as potentially influencing treatment for work addiction. In order for this knowledge to directly contribute towards benefiting practitioners further study is needed, leading to the ability to allow actions taken to reduce/prevent Workaholism to be tailored to the specific needs of employees. By understanding gender differences and the individual's perception of their own Workaholism, treatment could be tailored specifically for the individual. The current study suggests that blanket policies designed to promote work-life balance are unlikely to benefit all employees.</p>

scholarly journals Die graad van werkbetrokkenheid: 'n Bipolere kontinuum?

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Roodt ◽  
C. L. Bester ◽  
A. B. Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Type A ◽  
Work Alienation ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
High Work ◽  
The Continuum

The degree of work involvement: a bipolar continuum? In a motivational approach towards the degree of work involvement work alienation and work involvement were conceptualized as extreme poles of a continuum. Some theorists even suggested that the continuum should be extended towards extreme work involvement. This study empirically investigated the possibility to conceptualize the degree of work involvement as a bipolar continuum. Results of this study show that low work involvement is an indicator of work alienation and that high work involvement is an indicator of workaholism and type A behaviour. Further proof of a bipolar continuum resulted from a confirmatory factor analysis on the work involvement questionnaire, because some items loaded negatively and others positively on the same factor. Opsomming In 'n motiveringsbenadering tot die graad van werkbetrokkenheid is werkvervreemding en -betrokkenheid as uiterste pole van 'n kontinuum gekonsepsualiseer. Sommige teoretici het selfs gesuggereer dat die kontinuum in die rigting van ekstreme werkbetrokkenheid uitgebrei moet word. Hierdie studie het die moontlikheid om die graad van werkbetrokkenheid as 'n bipolere kontinuum te konsepsualiseer, empirics ondersoek. Resultate van hierdie studie dui daarop dat lae werkbetrokkenheid 'n aanduider van werkvervreemding is en dat hoe werkbetrokkenheid 'n aanduider van werkbeheptheid en tipe A-gedrag is. Verdere stawing vir 'n bipolere kontinuum word deur 'n bevestigende faktorontleding op die werkbetrokkenheidvraelys verskaf, omdat sommige items negatief en ander positief op dieselfde faktor laai.

scholarly journals PREDICTING THE FUTURE AND SATISFACTION WITH LIFE

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
T. M. Tytarenko
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Verbal Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

According to our results, increase in productivity of personal prediction has a positive influence on life satisfaction. The present research explores what role the various types of future prediction play in personal life satisfaction. The study focuses on some psychological time phenomena: desires, life choices, aspirations, motivations. To influence personal well-being the desires might be mature, productive, strong and adequately assessed the current life situation. For high level of well-being intrapersonal desires are more important than interpersonal ones. The life choice determining the horizon prediction leads to the transformation of meanings due to the development of new causal sequences of life-satisfaction. The satisfaction with own self and own life world grows when a person makes life-changing decisions from some alternatives. There are the criteria of readiness for significant choices to increase life-satisfaction: self-organizing; psychosemantic; subjective; functional; operational. The stages of life aspirations include communicative semiotization for defining unconscious ambitions and the registration of the forecast as an underway to the desired plot of worthy life, the narration activation leads to the verbal form of the forecast as a desirable plot of a worthy life, and purposeful creation of the story about decent future life, known as setting the concrete tasks. Motivation-semantic future structuring determines the personal life-satisfaction while taking the narrative form in different contexts of communication. The future structuring which is directly related to the effort to optimize the quality of life is self-creating and re-assessment one; in the 1-st model a person re-assesses adopted values and the source of life changes as changes of own self through the integration of new experience; in the 2-and model the values are already adopted, interpreted, and the movement is due to the changes in life situation.

Learned Helplessness at the Workplace and Its Impact on Work Involvement: An Empirical Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092097669
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Shamsi Rizvi ◽  
Ratika Sikand
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Learned Optimism ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Work

In today’s work environment that is characterized by rapid advancements in technology, globalization, liberalization, workforce diversity and increasing national and global competition, workforces face pressure like never before. In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, where employees face high work stress, learned helplessness may develop in them, which in turn could have adverse effects on their performance, as well as on organizational outcomes. The purpose is to study the impact of learned helplessness on work involvement. Data were collected from 324 bank employees of Delhi, and 300 responses were considered for analysis. Analysis was done using SPSS 24 and AMOS 24 software. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and hierarchical multiple regression were performed. Our study found that learned helplessness is negatively related to work involvement. After controlling the impact of demographic factors, all the dimensions of learned helplessness were found to be predictors of work involvement, except for the external–global–unstable (EGU) dimension. The researchers found very few researches that studied the variables at the organizational level, most being limited to individual-level studies. Since the constructs of our study have an important influence on organizations, it is important to understand the impact of learned helplessness on employee work involvement. When employees experience helplessness, their work involvement level is negatively impacted; hence, it is important for managers and supervisors to identify the learned helplessness problem. Human resources (HR) practitioners should focus on developing techniques that aim at changing negative employee thought processes to positive ones and help in converting learned helplessness to learned optimism.

scholarly journals The everyday life situation of caregivers to family members who have had a stroke and received the rehabilitation intervention F@ce in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Margareta Eriksson ◽  
Julius Tunga Kamwesiga ◽  
Susanne Guidetti
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Caregiver Burden ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Rehabilitation Intervention

Abstract Background Stroke is increasing in Africa and consequences such as limitations in the performance of activities in everyday life persist a long time. A family member might need to care for and assist the person who has had a stroke. The life situation of these caregivers thereby changes, which could lead to increased workload and new responsibilities in caring for which they lack but request knowledge. During the F@ce rehabilitation program, the caregivers received counseling, which is uncommon in the African context. The aim of the study was twofold; (1) to investigate the perceived caregiver burden and life satisfaction and, (2) to explore and describe the life situation for caregivers to persons that have had a stroke and received the mobile phone supported rehabilitation F@ce in urban areas in Uganda. Method A mixed method design was used. Twelve caregivers took part in a semi-structured interview regarding their everyday life situation and responded to questionnaires on caregiver burden and life satisfaction. Latent qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the interviews. Results Five categories were identified in the caregivers’ experiences of their life situation: Feels obligated but is just a natural commitment; a tightly scheduled everyday life; being the supporting relative; the caregivers´ approach as rehabilitators; and being supported by the rehabilitation intervention. The caregivers rated relatively high on the Caregiver Burden Scale and two thirds of the sample rated their satisfaction with life as a whole as dissatisfying. Further ratings on the Life Satisfaction checklist revealed that the financial, vocational, leisure and family situations were dissatisfying. Conclusions Even if it was viewed as a natural commitment to be a caregiver when a family member had had a stroke, the life situation changed substantially for those who took on the caregiving role. Caregiving responsibilities were challenging as well as a heavy workload and a strained financial situation as many were giving up on jobs. The participants felt burdened and rated a low life satisfaction. The F@ce intervention was, however, expressed as valued and involved support and advice in their caregiving situation as well as information on stroke which relieved stress among them.

scholarly journals Influence of Resilience on Work Engagement in Machinists in Charge of Yogyakarta Tugu Station

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Ajeng Tyas Damayanti ◽  
Handoko Handoko
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
High Work

Travel safety is realized from the minimum number of train accidents that occur. This study is to determine the effect of resilience to work involvement in machinists on duty at Tugu Station in Yogyakarta. The study was conducted by conducting interviews to obtain preliminary data and ask to fill out the questionnaire provided. The results showed that 43% of respondents had low resilience, while the other 57% had high resilience. As many as 52% of machinists have high work involvement, while 48% have low work involvement. The correlation between them is at a moderate level of 0.627.

scholarly journals Three-way interaction effects of workaholism on employee well-being: Evidence from blue-collar workers in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod Haar ◽  
Maree Roche
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
High Drive ◽  
Supported Work ◽  
Anxiety Depression

AbstractWorkaholism is an important workplace phenomenon that has received less empirical testing than might be expected. This study of 100 New Zealand blue-collar workers tested whether three dimensions of the workaholism triad: work involvement, drive to work and work enjoyment were related to anxiety, depression and insomnia, and in the majority this was supported. Work involvement was positively related to all outcomes, while work enjoyment was negatively related. Drive to work was positively related to anxiety and insomnia only. Overall, consistently, large amounts of variance were explained by the workaholism triad. While previously untested in the literature, a three-way interaction of the workaholism triad was found towards anxiety and insomnia. Overall, higher work involvement was useful in buffering detrimental outcomes for those with either high work involvement or high drive to work, but not both. The present study provides a new way of understanding the effects of workaholism in the workplace.

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