Defining the Border Between Workaholism and Work Addiction: a Systematic Review

Morkevičiūtė, Modesta; Endriulaitienė, Auksė

doi:10.1007/s11469-022-00757-6

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“…Although it is generally considered as a genuine addiction [ 7 , 53 ], in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [ 54 ] it has not been formally defined as such yet. Probably one of the most significant reasons for this is the lack of clarity among different forms of excessive work [ 31 ]. Hence, future studies should, above all, make every effort to solve the conceptual issues of work addiction.…”

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“…Therefore, the authors of the recent studies (e.g., [ 29 , 30 ]) pointed to a prospect of differentiating these two constructs. Following this idea, Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė [ 31 ] performed a comprehensive quantitative literature analysis and confirmed differences in the constructs of workaholism and work addiction. Since Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė [ 31 ] found the concept of workaholism to be a bit fuzzy, a decision was made to analyze work addiction in the current paper, which is defined as being overly concerned about work, being driven by an uncontrollable work motivation, and spending so much energy and effort on work that it impairs private relationships, spare-time activities and/or health [ 32 ].…”

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Understanding Work Addiction in Adult Children: The Effect of Addicted Parents and Work Motivation

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2022

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The aim of the study was to examine the mediating role that work motivation plays in the relationship between perceived work addiction of parents and their adult child’s work addiction. The sample was comprised of 537 participants working in different Lithuanian organizations that were selected on the basis of the convenience principle. Data were collected by means of online self-administered questionnaires. To test a mediation model, a structural equation modeling was performed. It was found that perceived work addiction of both mother and father was related to higher levels of work addiction of their adult child. The results also indicated that perceived work addiction of the father was related to increased work addiction in an adult child through higher levels of extrinsic motivation as a partial mediator. The indirect effect of perceived work addiction of the mother (via extrinsic motivation) was not significant. As was expected, the indirect relationship between work addiction in parents and their adult child via intrinsic motivation was not significant. This study demonstrates that integrating both family-related and motivational variables may provide relevant insights into the nature of and mechanisms underlying work addiction and that studies in this field deserve to be further developed in future research.

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Understanding Work Addiction in Adult Children: The Effect of Addicted Parents and Work Motivation

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2022

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“…, 2018). Likewise, differences and similarities of various forms of excessive work need to be fully clarified (Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė, 2022). Thus, first and foremost, more attention should be focused on the nature of work addiction in order to address its conceptual issues.…”

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“…However, more recently, some authors have put forward the idea that work addiction is a psychological construct that is theoretically rooted in addiction literature, whereas workaholism is a more generic term that is seen as everyday work-related behavior rather than a pathological or negative phenomenon (Griffiths et al ., 2018); therefore, workaholism and work addiction should be differentiated (Clark et al ., 2020). Following these arguments, Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė (2022) performed a comprehensive quantitative literature analysis and confirmed differences in the constructs of workaholism and work addiction. When reviewing literature, the authors singled out separate conceptualizations of both.…”

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Moderating role of perceived work addiction of managers in the relationship between employees' perfectionism and work addiction: a trait activation theory perspective

Morkevičiūtė

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2022

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PurposeEarlier authors suggested that a combination of different factors leads to the development of work addiction, hereby indicating that no single perspective is enough to fully understand this phenomenon. Hence, the aim of this study was to examine the moderating role of perceived work addiction of managers in the relationship between employees' perfectionism and work addiction.Design/methodology/approachThe present cross-sectional study was conducted on a convenience sample of 964 workers from different organizations in Lithuania. Data were collected by means of online self-administered questionnaires. To test the moderating effect, a covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) path analysis was performed.FindingsAt the level of bivariate correlations, both self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism showed positive links with employees' work addiction. However, in structural equation models only self-oriented perfectionism was related to higher levels of work addiction. Further, although the results of the study did not confirm the assumption about the moderating effect of perceived work addiction of managers on the relationship between employees' self-oriented perfectionism and work addiction, the results showed that a positive relationship between employees' socially prescribed perfectionism and work addiction was strongest when a manager was perceived to be highly addicted to work.Originality/valueThe study enriched understanding of the roots of work addiction by employing trait activation theory (Tett and Burnett, 2003) and explaining how both dispositional and contextual factors interacted in predicting this phenomenon.

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Work Addiction and Workaholism are Synonymous: An Analysis of the Sources of Confusion (a Commentary on Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė)

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2024

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė (2023) provided an interesting and important overview of research on work addiction/workaholism since 2007. In their conclusions, they suggest that "workaholism" is a separate phenomenon from "work addiction." However, this conclusion is i) inconsistent with the data on which they base their analyses and ii) other conclusions that they draw from these analyses. The current paper examines these inconsistencies and explains the sources of confusion. Work addiction and workaholism are investigated both by clinical researchers and organizational scholars. The limited exchange of expertise between these two major frameworks may cause misunderstandings. Addictions are complex biological, psychological, social, and cultural phenomena. Behavioral addictions are defined as behavioral patterns and, similarly to other mental disorders, as syndromes. They manifest as different symptoms, including behavioral, emotional, and cognitive. Components of excessive and compulsive working are defined as indicators or symptoms of addiction and not as different conceptualizations of workaholism. Treating different facets of work addiction by Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė as different conceptualizations of it leads to theoretical and terminological confusion. The current paper analyzes these problems as they emerge on the boundaries of clinical and organizational frameworks in the work of different authors.

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Defining the Border Between Workaholism and Work Addiction: a Systematic Review

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Understanding Work Addiction in Adult Children: The Effect of Addicted Parents and Work Motivation

Understanding Work Addiction in Adult Children: The Effect of Addicted Parents and Work Motivation

Moderating role of perceived work addiction of managers in the relationship between employees' perfectionism and work addiction: a trait activation theory perspective

Work Addiction and Workaholism are Synonymous: An Analysis of the Sources of Confusion (a Commentary on Morkevičiūtė and Endriulaitienė)

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