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Work addiction, work engagement, job burnout, and perceived stress: A network analysis

Opublikowane w Frontiers in Psychology (70 pkt. wg. MEiN)

Autorzy: Piotr Bereznowski, Paweł Atroszko, Roman Konarski

Streszczenie:

Introduction: Recently, the network theory of mental disorders has been used to conceptualize work addiction as a dynamic system of symptoms in direct relationships. This study aimed to extend previous work by investigating the direct relationships of work addiction symptoms with dimensions of work engagement, job burnout, and perceived stress.

Methods: These phenomena were measured with the Bergen Work Addiction Scale, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory– General Survey, and the Perceived Stress Scale. The sample comprised 676 working Poles with a mean age of 36.12 years (SD = 11.23). The network analysis followed the guidelines for estimating psychological networks from cross-sectional data.

Results: Work engagement and job burnout were more closely associated with each other than with work addiction which supports the notion that engagement and burnout represent polar opposites of the same construct and that work addiction is a separate phenomenon, related to both work engagement and job burnout via specific pathways. The symptoms of work addiction were connected with other phenomena through four direct relationships: (1) mood modification— absorption, (2) mood modification—stress, (3) withdrawal—absorption, and (4) problems—exhaustion.

Discussion: These findings narrow down and specify hypotheses regarding potential mechanisms leading from engagement to addiction and from addiction to burnout. The possible mechanisms focus on the absorption component and mood modification related to efforts focused on alleviating chronic stress and negative emotional states. In turn, problems arising from work addiction may lead to exhaustion. Future studies investigating these mechanisms in detail may enable proper prevention programs and therapeutic interventions.

Słowa kluczowe: network analysis, job burnout, perceived stress, work addiction, work engagement, workaholism, network approach

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Work Addiction and Work Engagement: a Network Approach to Cross-Cultural Data

Opublikowane w International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, czasopiśmie z Impact Factor = 3.836 (40 pkt. wg. MEiN)

Autorzy: Piotr Bereznowski, Aleksandra Bereznowska, Paweł A. Atroszko, Roman Konarski

Streszczenie:This study aimed to investigate direct relationships of work addiction symptoms with dimensions of work engagement. We used three samples in which work addiction was measured with the Bergen Work Addiction Scale and work engagement was measured with the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. One sample comprised responses from working Norwegians (n₁ = 776), and two samples comprised responses from working Poles (n₂ = 719; n₃ = 715). We jointly estimated three networks using the fused graphic lasso method. Additionally, we estimated the stability of each network, node centrality, and node predictability and quantitatively compared all networks. The results showed that absorption and mood modification could constitute a bridge between work addiction and work engagement. It suggests that further investigation of properties of absorption and mood modification might be crucial for answering the question of how engaged workers become addicted to work.

Słowa kluczowe: Compulsive overworking, Network analysis, Network approach, Work addiction, Work engagement, Workaholism

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