Workaholism - Work And Extra-Work Satisfactions - And Psychological Well-Being Among Professors In Turkey

Year 2007, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 1 - 25, 01.03.2007

Ronald J. Burke Mustafa Koyuncu Lisa Fıksenbaum

Abstract

Purpose – This research examined the relationship of three workaholism components identified by Spence and Robbins (1992) and work, extra-work and psychological health outcomes. Design/Methodology/Approach – Data were collected from 406 professors in Turkey (243 males and 165 females) using an internet-based survey. Measures included personal and situational characteristics, possible workaholism antecedents (beliefs and fears, organizational values supporting work personal life imbalance), workaholism components (work enjoyment, feeling driven to work, and work involvement), validating job behaviors (perfectionism, stress), work outcomes (job and career satisfaction), extra-work outcomes (e.g., family satisfaction) and psychological health (e.g., psychosomatic symptoms). Findings – Workaholism components, particularly work enjoyment and feeling driven to work because of inner pressures, emerged as strong and consistent predictors of a number of work and well-being outcomes. 1 This research was supported in part by the Schulich School of Business, York University and Erciyes University. Louise Coutu prepared the manuscript. We thank Janet Spence for making her measures available to us. 2 Ronald BURKE, Mustafa KOYUNCU, Lisa FIKSENBAUM Practical implications – Work enjoyment emerged as a strong and consistent predictor of most work and well-being outcomes. Organizations are encouraged to increase satisfaction levels in efforts to attain productive and healthy people. Originality/value. Replicates previous North American workaholism research in Turkey.

Keywords

Workaholism, Professors, Turkey, work satisfaction, psychological well-being

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• Research Framework Predictors Outcomes
• Personal demographics
• • Workaholic job behaviors
• • Work satisfactions
• • Extra-work satisfactions
• • Psychological well-being Workaholism antecedents
• Workaholism components