objective: present research intends to investigate relationship of psychological hardiness with emotional intelligence and workaholism among high school teachers. methods: the study population includes all male and female high school teachers in ghorveh city in the academic year 2012-2013. using simple random sampling method, 100 male and female teachers were selected. to collect data, kobasa p...

This research relies on a combination of variable- and person-centered approaches to help improve our understanding the dimensionality workaholism construct. Our results showed that employees’ ratings simultaneously reflected global overarching construct co-existing with four specific dimensions (behavioral, motivational, emotional, cognitive workaholism) among sample 432 workers who completed ...

This study examined the relationship of personality factors with three workaholism components identified by Spence and Robbins (1992). Six personality factors were considered: The Big Five (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness to new experience) and Generalized self-efficacy. Data were collected from 496 health care employees (mostly nurses) in Norway using ques...

This research relies on complementary variable- and person-centred approaches to investigate the underlying dimensionality of workaholism construct. In three studies (Study 1: N = 343 workers; Study 2: 654 firefighters in Sample 1 247 administrative technical employees 2; 3: 153 nurses 359 educators 2), results showed that employees' ratings simultaneously reflected a global overarching constru...

This study of 168 dual-earner couples examined the relationship between workaholism and relationship satisfaction. More specifically, on the basis of the literature, it was hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to work-family conflict. In addition, the authors predicted that workaholism is related to reduced support provided to the partner, through work-family conflict, and that i...

The study aimed to discuss the effecting situations of training-workaholism, health-promoting lifestyle, and quality of life among national collegiate athletes from different categories of competitive sports. The subjects of present study were 492 valid samples of national collegiate athletes. The results indicate that training involvement served as the best predictor of training-workaholism to...

The present study investigated in a sample of 587 telecom managers whether workaholism, burnout, and work engagement—the supposed antipode of burnout—can be distinguished empirically. These three concepts were measured with existing, validated multi-dimensional questionnaires. Structural equation modeling revealed that a slightly modified version of the hypothesised model that assumed three dis...

This study examined the relationship of personality factors with three workaholism components identified by Spence and Robbins (1992). Six personality factors were considered: The Big Five (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness to new experience) and Generalized self-efficacy. Data were collected from 496 health care employees (mostly nurses) in Norway using ques...

Psychological detachment from work, an off-job experience of "switching off" mentally, seems to be crucial for promoting employee's well-being. Previous studies on predictors of psychological detachment mainly focused on job-related factors, and only a few studies focused on family-related and personal factors. This study focuses not only on job-related factors (job demands, job control, workpl...