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Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment

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Department of Educational Science, University of Bologna, Via Filippo Re, 6-40126 Bologna, Italy
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Research Unit Occupational & Organizational Psychology and Professional Learning, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(22), 8550; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228550
Received: 31 October 2020 / Revised: 14 November 2020 / Accepted: 16 November 2020 / Published: 18 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Workaholism Research)
The academic literature has drawn a clear distinction between a positive form (i.e., work engagement) and a negative form (i.e., workaholism) of heavy work investment (HWI). Nevertheless, the different weight of individual and situational factors contributing to their development was not thoroughly explored. This study aims to investigate the role of individual variables (i.e., obsessive–compulsive traits, achievement orientation, perfectionism, and conscientiousness) and situational factors (i.e., job demands and overwork climate) regarding engagement and workaholism simultaneously. Hypotheses were tested using a sample of 523 Italian employees. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that overwork climate and job demands were conversely related to engagement and workaholism, with job demand reporting the strongest association with workaholism. Furthermore, fear of failure was the only individual factor showing a significant and opposite relationship with workaholism and engagement. In contrast, perfectionism was positively associated with both forms of HWI. These results shed light on the potential effectiveness of intervention strategies focused on the employees and organizations in preventing workaholism and promoting engagement. View Full-Text
Keywords: workaholism; engagement; personality; organizational climate; job demands; overwork workaholism; engagement; personality; organizational climate; job demands; overwork
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Mazzetti, G.; Guglielmi, D.; Schaufeli, W.B. Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8550. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228550

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Mazzetti G, Guglielmi D, Schaufeli WB. Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(22):8550. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228550

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Mazzetti, Greta, Dina Guglielmi, and Wilmar B. Schaufeli. 2020. "Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 22: 8550. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228550

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