A universal approach has been developed that makes it possible to define a workaholic
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Almost all specialists in psychology to this day can not correctly determine whether a person is a workaholic and whether he is addicted to work, as in the modern world most people have an irregular schedule every day.
But the employees of the Institute of Nottingham Trent and the Institute of Bergen under the guidance of the doctor Cecilia Shu Andressen state that they came up with a universal approach that makes it possible to identify a workaholic. They tested 12,000 people to isolate the basic aspects of workaholism.
The essence of the methodology is based on a set of questions / statements that must be answered "never" (1), "occasionally" (2), "case by case" (3), "often" (4), "constantly" (5) . The number of statements includes, for example, "Do you think how to allocate more time for work," "You work more than originally intended," "You work to overcome feelings of guilt, fear, weakness and depression."
There were also such statements: "Friends familiar with you recommended to work less, but you do not ignore them," "You have a stress if something prevents you from working," "Hobbies, training and other leisure retreat into the background because of your work" , "Because of the work you have worsened health."
People who recruit more than 5 questions are considered workaholics. It will not be superfluous to note that, the researchers have checked that at the moment the dependence on work is growing stronger due to the established relationship between work and home. As a result, it is more difficult for a person to switch from one case to another
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