A multifaceted validation study of Spence and Robbins' (1992) Workaholism Battery

By L. W. McMillan, Elizabeth C. Brady, M. O’driscoll, N. Marsh. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Workaholic worker type differences in work‐family conflict: The moderating role of supervisor support and flexible work scheduling (2006, methodology): “However, whether flexible organisa- tional policies will have a beneficial effect independent of the specific dispositional characteristics of particular employees has yet to be investigated.”
Moderators of the curvilinear relation between extent of telecommuting and job and life satisfaction: The role of performance outcome orientation and worker type (2010, methodology): “…type was assessed using a shortened version of the WorkBAT workaholism scale developed by Spence and Robbins (1992) based on its adequate reliability and validity (McMillan et al., 2002) and consisted of two subscales comprising three items each: Work Drive (α = .67) and Work Enjoyment (α = .63).”
Driven to Work and Enjoyment of Work (2012, background): “Managers who are driven to work feel compelled or obligated to work (Johnstone & Johnston, 2005; McMillan et al., 2002; Spence & Robbins, 1992).”
The Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire: Emphasizing Work-Life Imbalance and Addiction in the Measurement of Workaholism (2013, methodology): “Thus, the drive component of workaholism is the component most closely linked to OCPD; this connection has been empirically shown (Aziz et al., 2010; McMillan et al., 2002).”
The relationship between ‘workaholism’, basic needs satisfaction at work and personality (2010, background): “Some studies have reported a link between ‘workaholism’ and intrinsic and extrinsic job motivation (Burke & Matthiesen, 2004; McMillan et al., 2002).”
The relationship between strong motivation to work, “workaholism”, and health (2007, methodology): “…analysis was limited to a maximum of two factors based on the more recent theory of two components of workaholism— Drive and Enjoyment of Work (McMillan et al., 2002; 2003; Kanai et al., 1996), the goodness-of-fit statistics revealed a good fit between data and model, each of which also was…”
PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF WORKAHOLISM (2006, background): “Obsessiveness, compulsiveness and high energy, for example, have been correlated with workaholism (Clark, Livesley, Schroeder, & Irish, 1996; McMillan et al., 2002; Spence & Robbins, 1992).”