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      Work addiction: An organizational behavior as well as an addictive behavior? : Commentary on: Ten myths about work addiction (Griffiths et al., 2018)

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          In their critical review, Griffiths et al. (2018) discussed 10 myths in the study of work addiction, and addressed the need to conceptualize and investigate this area of research more carefully. In this commentary, we expand their arguments, suggesting that indeed some of the popular myths have solid evidence-based results in the organizational literature. Yet, some of the arguments are only indirectly related to previous organizational findings. Therefore, we emphasize the need to resolve the ambiguities of work addiction, as well as to develop a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the well-known phenomenon of addictive work behavior.

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          Workaholism: definition, measurement, and preliminary results.

          J. Spence, A Robbins (1992)
          Questionnaires were developed to assess the concept of workaholism, defined in terms of high scores on measures of work involvement and driveness and low scores on a measure of enjoyment of work, and to contrast this profile with work enthusiasm, defined as high work involvement and enjoyment and low driveness. Additional scales were devised to test several predictions about the correlates of workaholism. A test battery including these scales was given in a mail survey to a national sample of male (n = 134) and female (n = 157) social workers with academic positions. The psychometric properties of the scales are described. Cluster analyses for each sex revealed groups who corresponded to the workaholic and work enthusiast profiles as well as several other profiles. As predicted, workaholics were higher than work enthusiasts (among other groups) on measures of perfectionism, nondelegation of responsibility, and job stress. They were also higher on a measure of health complaints. Investigations are being initiated to determine the association of workaholism and other score profiles with objectively diagnosed cardiac disorders and with measures of occupational performance.
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            Dimensions, antecedents, and consequences of workaholism: a conceptual integration and extension

            Thomas W. H. Ng, Kelly Sorensen, Daniel C. Feldman (2007)
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              Different Types of Employee Well-Being Across Time and Their Relationships With Job Crafting.

              Wilmar Schaufeli, Jari J HAKANEN, Maria Peeters (2017)
              We used and integrated the circumplex model of affect (Russell, 1980) and the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1998) to hypothesize how various types of employee well-being, which can be differentiated on theoretical grounds (i.e., work engagement, job satisfaction, burnout, and workaholism), may differently predict various job crafting behaviors (i.e., increasing structural and social resources and challenging demands, and decreasing hindering demands) and each other over time. At Time 1, we measured employee well-being, and 4 years later at Time 2, job crafting and well-being, using a large sample of Finnish dentists (N = 1,877). The results of structural equation modeling showed that (a) work engagement positively predicted both types of increasing resources and challenging demands and negatively predicted decreasing hindering demands; (b) workaholism positively predicted increasing structural resources and challenging demands; (c) burnout positively predicted decreasing hindering demands and negatively predicted increasing structural resources, whereas (d) job satisfaction did not relate to job crafting over time; and (e) work engagement positively influenced job satisfaction and negatively influenced burnout, whereas (f) workaholism predicted burnout after controlling for baseline levels. Thus, work engagement was a stronger predictor of future job crafting and other types of employee well-being than job satisfaction. Although workaholism was positively associated with job crafting, it also predicted burnout. We conclude that the relationship between job crafting and employee well-being may be more complex than assumed, because the way in which employees will craft their jobs in the future seems to depend on how they currently feel. (PsycINFO Database Record
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                Journal ID (pmc): jba
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JBA
                Title: Journal of Behavioral Addictions
                Abbreviated Title: J Behav Addict
                Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó (Budapest )
                ISSN (Print): 2062-5871
                ISSN (Electronic): 2063-5303
                Publication date (Electronic, epub): 13 December 2018
                Publication date (Print, ppub): December 2018
                Volume: 7
                Issue: 4
                Pages: 888-891
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Department of Behavioral Science and Integrative Brain and Cognition Center, University of Ariel , Ariel, Israel
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author: Weinstein Aviv; Department of Behavioral Science and Integrative Brain and Cognition Center, University of Ariel, Science Park, Ariel 40700, Israel; Phone: +972 3 907 6555; Fax: +972 3 906 6629; E-mails: avivwe@ 123456ariel.ac.il ; avivweinstein@ 123456yahoo.com
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                DOI: 10.1556/2006.7.2018.119
                PMC ID: 6376378
                PubMed ID: 30541338
                SO-VID: 628715e7-1682-4aad-9155-eaa31954764b
                Copyright © © 2018 The Author(s)
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.

                History
                Date received : 01 July 2018
                Date revision received : 05 November 2018
                Date accepted : 06 November 2018
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 28, Pages: 4
                Funding
                Funding sources: No financial support was received for this study.
                Categories
                Subject: COMMENTARY

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Evolutionary Biology,Medicine,Psychology,Educational research & Statistics,Social & Behavioral Sciences
                Keywords: behavioral addiction,work addiction,organizational behavior
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Evolutionary Biology, Medicine, Psychology, Educational research & Statistics, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                Keywords: behavioral addiction, work addiction, organizational behavior

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