This article addresses the stable tendency of excessive and compulsive working (ie,
workaholism). The main aim is to provide an updated oversight of the research area related …

Workaholism and work engagement can be depicted, respectively, as the pathological and
the healthy form of heavy work investment. In spite of their different definitions and outcomes …

This paper introduces a new definition for burnout and investigates the psychometric
properties of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT). In a prior qualitative study, 49 practitioners …

The current study introduces an ultra-short, 3-item version of the Utrecht Work Engagement
Scale. Using five national samples from Finland (N= 22,117), Japan (N= 1,968), the …

Organizations rely heavily on asynchronous message-based technologies (eg, e-mail) for
the purposes of work-related communications. These technologies are primary means of …

Eager to learn from private sector trends, practitioners in (semi) public organizations across
the world have recently turned their eyes to the concept of work engagement to improve …

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 …

Empirical research on workaholism has been hampered by a lack of consensus regarding
the definition and appropriate measurement of the construct. In the present study, we first …

Scholarly interest in workaholism has increased dramatically in recent years. This research
has underscored the detrimental effects of workaholism for employees, their families, and …

Purpose This study investigated the distinctiveness of two types of heavy work investment
(ie, workaholism and work engagement) by examining their 2-year longitudinal relationships …