The Work Addiction Risk Test: Development of a Tentative Measure of Workaholism

ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen Erkenntnisse zur Arbeitssucht. Neben einer kurzen Eingrenzung des Störungsbildes bzw. der Symptomatik an sich werden diagnostische Probleme und Grenzen diskutiert. Ebenfalls werden zwei Verfahren zur Erfassung von Arbeitssucht vorgestellt: der Work Addiction Risk Test von Robinson und die Skala für Arbeitssucht von Schneider. Außerdem werden Maßnahmen zur Bewältigung von Arbeitssucht aufgezeigt, die sich auf einer individuellen, einer Arbeitgeber- und einer gesamtpolitischen Ebene einordnen lassen.

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Test-Retest Reliability of the Work Addiction Risk Test

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1992.74.3.926 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 926-926 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Bryan E. Robinson ◽

Phyllis Post ◽

Judith F. Khakee

Keyword(s):

Work Addiction ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

Addiction Risk ◽

Test Retest Reliability

Test-retest reliability of the Work Addiction Risk Test over 2 weeks was .83 for 151 undergraduates; coefficient α was .85.

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Measuring Workaholism: Content Validity of the Work Addiction Risk Test

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1995.77.2.657 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 77 (2) ◽

pp. 657-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Bryan E. Robinson ◽

Bruce Phillips

Keyword(s):

Content Validity ◽

Work Addiction ◽

Test Items ◽

Addiction Risk ◽

State List

A total of 20 psychotherapists, randomly selected from a state list, critically examined the 25 items on the Work Addiction Risk Test for content validity. Subjects were asked to identify 25 items from a list of 35 which most accurately measured work addiction. Selected test items have generally high content validity for the domain of work addiction.

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Fear of Relationship Loss: Attachment Style as a Vulnerability Factor in Job Burnout

Slovenian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2478/sjph-2020-0019 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 146-154

Author(s):

Andreja Pšeničny ◽

Mitja Perat

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Burnout Syndrome ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

Work Addiction ◽

Avoidant Attachment ◽

Addiction Risk ◽

Burnout Risk ◽

Preoccupied Attachment

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the correlation between attachment styles and various burnout risk groups (“relaxed”, “wornout”, “challenged” and “burnout”) and whether attachment styles suitably discriminate between individual burnout risk groups.MethodThe study involved 2,320 participants (1,668 women and 652 men), who completed an adrenal burnout syndrome questionnaire, a performance-based self esteem scale, a work addiction risk test and a relationship questionnaire.ResultsA one-way analysis of variance confirmed attachment style differences between burnout risk groups. The challenged and burnout groups differed from the relaxed and wornout groups by having a significantly lower secure attachment style score and a higher insecure (avoidant and preoccupied) attachment style score. The canonical discriminant analysis showed that the predictors (secure, preoccupied and avoidant attachment styles) can be used to appropriately classify 85.4% of respondents in the predicted burnout risk groups.ConclusionThe study confirmed the hypothesis that two insecure attachment styles (i.e. avoidant and preoccupied) predominate in the challenged and burnout groups, and that a secure attachment style predominates in the relaxed and wornout groups. Burnout syndrome can thus be conceived as the result of excessive and compulsive efforts to retain a relationship that is perceived as insecure or to reduce (excessive) fear of losing this relationship.

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Maladaptive Rumination Mediates the Relationship between Self-Esteem, Perfectionism, and Work Addiction: A Largescale Survey Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17197332 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (19) ◽

pp. 7332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bernadette Kun ◽

Róbert Urbán ◽

Beáta Bőthe ◽

Mark D. Griffiths ◽

Zsolt Demetrovics ◽

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Keyword(s):

Self Esteem ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Survey Study ◽

Response Scale ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Addictive Disorders ◽

Work Addiction ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Addiction Risk ◽

The Relationship

Background: Empirical evidence suggests that low self-esteem and high perfectionism are significant personality correlates of work addiction, but the mechanisms underlying these relationships are still unclear. Consequently, exploring cognitive mechanisms will help to better understand work addiction. For instance, rumination is one of the under-researched topics in work addiction, although it may explain specific thinking processes of work-addicted individuals. The purpose of the study was to test the mediating role of maladaptive rumination (i.e., brooding) in the relationship between personality and addiction. Methods: In a largescale cross-sectional, unrepresentative, online study, 4340 adults with a current job participated. The following psychometric instruments were used: Work Addiction Risk Test Revised, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and Ruminative Response Scale. Results: It was found that self-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism, and self-esteem had both direct and indirect relationships with work addiction via the mediating effect of maladaptive rumination. The two paths involving brooding explained 44% of the direct relationship. Conclusions: The study demonstrated that brooding type of rumination as a putatively maladaptive strategy explains why individuals characterized by low self-esteem and high perfectionism may have a higher risk of work addiction. The results suggest that cognitive-affective mechanisms in work addiction are similar to those found in other addictive disorders.

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Work Addiction Risk Test

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t06519-000 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Bryan E. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Work Addiction ◽

Addiction Risk

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Concurrent Validity of the Work Addiction Risk Test as a Measure of Workaholism

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3f.1313 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 79 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1313-1314 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Bryan E. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Concurrent Validity ◽

Type A ◽

Type A Behavior ◽

Valid Measure ◽

Work Addiction ◽

Addiction Risk ◽

Two Measures

The Work Addiction Risk Test was administered, with a measure of anxiety and two measures of Type A behavior, to 363 undergraduates at a major southern institution to test for concurrent validity. Correlations of scores on the Work Addiction Risk Test with other scores support the scale as a valid measure of workaholism.

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