Personality traits and workaholism

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Authors

SOUČKOVÁ Marie VACULÍK Martin PROCHÁZKA Jakub

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_14_December_2014/7.pdf
Field Psychology
Keywords workaholism;work involvement;work driveness;work enjoyment;personality;conscientiousness;neuroticism;perfectionism
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Description The paper focuses on understanding the relationship between workaholism and personality. The main goal was to examine the personality antecedents of workaholism, specifically the role of conscientiousness, neuroticism and perfectionism in workaholism. Workaholism is viewed as a three-dimensional phenomenon consisting of excessive involvement in work, compulsive need to work, and lack of satisfaction from work. Based on the multiple linear regressions, the authors constructed a model of relations between personality traits and workaholism. While neuroticism predicted overall workaholism (positive relationship), conscientiousness was positively related to all three workaholism components. Furthermore, perfectionism predicted feeling driven to work (positive relationship) and neuroticism was related to joy in work (negative relationship).The results underline the possibility of predicting workaholism from personality traits. Based on the findings, employers and study counselors can implement preventive measures in order to help employees and students to preserve their performance and avoid maladaptive patterns of work behaviour.

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