The Perception of a Founder’s Obsessive Passion and Co-founders’ Decision to Join the Venture Team

This study examined the relationship between harmonious and obsessive passion and coping, and assessed whether coping mediated the relationship between passion types and changes in burnout and goal attainment. College- and university-level volleyball players (N = 421) completed measures of passion, coping, burnout, and goal attainment at the start and end of a season. Results of structural equation modeling, using a true latent change approach, supported a model whereby types of passion were indirectly related to changes in burnout and goal attainment via coping. Harmonious passion was positively related to task-oriented coping which, in turn, was positively associated with change in goal attainment. Obsessive passion was positively associated with disengagement-oriented coping which, in turn, was positively and negatively associated with changes in burnout and goal attainment, respectively. This study identifies coping as a reason why passionate athletes may experience changes in burnout and goal attainment over the course of a season.

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Spanish adaptation of the Passion Toward Work Scale (PTWS)

Anales de Psicología ◽

10.6018/analesps.33.2.240521 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 403 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

María José Serrano-Fernández ◽

Joan Boada-Grau ◽

Carme Gil-Ripoll ◽

Andreu Vigil-Colet

Keyword(s):

Occupational Health ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Factor Model ◽

Great Influence ◽

Harmonious Passion ◽

Probability Sampling ◽

Obsessive Passion ◽

Adequate Reliability ◽

Do So ◽

Program Version

Passion at work has a great influence on the occupational health of workers. Vallerand and his collaborators have defined two types of passion, Harmonious and Obsessive. In the first type, people feel obliged to carry out an activity but freely decide to do it and do so in harmony with other aspects of their lives. And in the second, although the person likes the activity, they feel obliged to take part in it because of internal circumstances that exercise control over them. In this context, the objective was to adapt Vallerand and Houlfort’s Passion towards Work Scale (PTW) into Spanish. The participants were 513 workers, selected through non-probability sampling. We used the FACTOR program (version 7.2) and SPSS 20.0. The results of the CFA (ESEM) for the PTW scale supported the two-factor model (Harmonious Passion and Obsessive Passion), presented adequate reliability and evidence of validity with Burnout, Irritation, Engagement and Self-Efficacy. The PTW Scale and Questionnaire are reliable and valid instruments, suitable for being used in Spanish.

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Exercise addiction, obsessive passion, and the use of nutritional supplements in fitness center attendees

Translational Sports Medicine ◽

10.1002/tsm2.131 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 188-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mia Beck Lichtenstein ◽

Esben Skov Jensen ◽

Attila Szabo

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Supplements ◽

Fitness Center ◽

Obsessive Passion ◽

Exercise Addiction

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Effects of work passion on turnover intention for Chinese government employees: The dualistic model of passion perspective

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2017.71 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 502-518 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zhenxing Gong ◽

Ying Zhang ◽

Jinfeng Ma ◽

Yao Liu ◽

Yujia Zhao

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Well Being ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Government Employees ◽

Harmonious Passion ◽

Obsessive Passion ◽

The Relationship ◽

Work Passion

AbstractTurnover intention is a negative outcome for an organization. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationships among work passion, subjective well-being, career adaptability, and turnover intention for Chinese government employees. The article consists of an empirical study with a sample of 472 government employees in Shandong Province, China. Participants completed a series of questionnaires in three waves. The results indicate that harmonious passion is negatively related to turnover intention and that obsessive passion is positively related to turnover intention. Additionally, the relationship between harmonious/obsessive passion and turnover is mediated by subjective well-being, and career adaptability moderates the relationship between harmonious/obsessive passion and subjective well-being. Implications are discussed.

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