WORKAHOLISM

INTRODUCTION
DEFINATION
Addiction to work is called Workaholism
Review of some researches

Oates(1971) Escapist workaholic

uses work in escape from an
unhappy life
 Killinger(1991) adds to the addiction
perspective in Workaholism
• Machhlowitz(1980) after interviewing hundred
Workaholism concluded they were happy and
productive

• Scott and her colleagues (1997) proposed three

type of workaholic
• compulsive dependent
• Perfectionist
• Achievement oriented workaholic
 Relationship to other variable
• Burnout & work engagement
• Sleep problem and cardiovascular risk
• Syptoms of psychatric disorders
• Depressive mood, disabling back pain and
sickness absence
 Stress and job burnout

• Marital disaffection
• Work family and work type difference
• Life satisfaction depressive mood and
occupational health
• Job demands
• Outcomes of employe
 Methodology
• Objectives

• To find out the strength of association between the factors of

Workaholism, job demands and work values with anxiety for old age and
physical attractiveness.

• 2. To find out the relationship between Workaholism and Psychiatric

Disorders

• 3. to clarify previous diverging findings concerning the nature,

antecedents, and consequences of working hard.

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• 4.Investigating the cross-lagged associations between work engagement
and burnout, and life satisfaction and depressive symptoms.

• 5.To examine the validity of the workaholism triad as compared to the

workaholism dyad , to test the relationship between workaholism
and work-family conflict.

• 6.To explore the three-way relationships between worker type, WFC and
supervisor support and flexible work schedules.

• 7.What relationships exist among workaholism, marital disaffection, locus

of control, positive affect, and negative af
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• 8.To examining the relationship of Workaholism with teachers’ stress and
job burnout, this study was a descriptive- or working nal study (using
regression) with regard to the relationship between the variables.

• 9.To examine the associations between workaholism on the one hand and
psychological ill health, low back pain with disability, and sickness absence
on the other among Japanese workers.

• 10.To know the relationship between Workaholism, sleep problems and

cardiovascular risk.
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Research design for sample
 sample
Instrument

Procedure
• CONCLUSION