Workaholic, or just hard worker?

Workaholic and work engaged employees: dead ringers or worlds apart?

Building on Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory and Meijman and Mulder's Effort-Recovery Model, the present study examined the nature, antecedents, and consequences of working hard (i.e., workaholism and work engagement) in a Dutch convenience sample of 1,246 employees. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that workaholism and work engagement were two largely independent concepts. Crossi...

Child welfare worker caseload: what's just right?

This study was designed to establish a caseload standard for child welfare workers. Understanding reasonable workload expectations for child welfare workers is a cornerstone of quality service provision and the recruitment and retention of qualified workers. Because of the analytic complexity of this question, qualitative and quantitative methods were used.The mixed methods included focus group...

Heat Shock Protein: Hard Worker or Bad Offender for Gastric Diseases

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) have core housekeeping functions in the cells where they are built-in components of folding, signal transduction pathways, and quality control functions for which they proofread the structure of proteins and repair misfolded conformers. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection leads to significant inflammations in the gastric mucosa, which is closely associated with ...

Workaholic Worker Type Differences in Work-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Supervisor Support and Flexible Work Scheduling

Purpose: This study had three aims. Firstly, to examine the validity of the workaholism triad as compared to the workaholism dyad. Secondly, to test the relationship between workaholism and work-family conflict. Thirdly, to explore the three-way relationships between worker type, WFC and supervisor support and flexible work schedules. Methodology: Participants consisted of 169 workers employed ...

Hypertension: Scandal? Or Just Normality?