A predictive study of antecedent variables of workaholism

  1. María José Serrano-Fernández 1
  2. Joan Boada-Grau 2
  3. Carme Gil-Ripoll 3
  4. Andreu Vigil-Colet 2
  1. 1 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (España)
  2. 2 Universitat Rovira i Virgili (España)
  3. 3 EADA, Business School (España)
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Revista:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 28

Número: 4

Páginas: 401-406

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Background: Recent studies have pointed to a relationship between personality variables, engagement, and the lifestyle of workers with workaholism. Our goal in the present study is to carry out a predictive study of the pre-existing variables for workaholism. Method: The study sample participants were 513 workers (48.1 % men, 51.9 % women), obtained through non-probability sampling. The programmes used were FACTOR (7.2 version) and SPSS 20.0. Results: We found that personality variables such as engagement, self-efficacy, obsessive-compulsive component (ICO), satisfaction with life and lifestyle were predictive of workaholism. Conclusions: Workaholism can, in fact, be predicted through certain variables (personality, engagement, self-efficacy, ICO, satisfaction with life and lifestyle) and hence, the present study contributes to a better understanding of workaholism and to furthering a healthy life style which may be affected by workaholism.

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