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- The study investigates the link between unfavorable working conditions and employee health, focusing on how workaholism might mediate this relationship.
- It involved 988 employees from a consulting firm who completed surveys on job demands, control, social support, effort, and rewards, as well as their levels of workaholism and health outcomes.
- Results showed that while many stressors directly impacted health, workaholism significantly influenced four health issues and mediated numerous relationships between workplace stressors and health outcomes.
Article Abstract
It is currently unknown if unfavorable working conditions, reflected by the demand-control-support model and the effort-reward imbalance model, directly influence health or if the effects may be mediated by work-related attitudes and behaviors such as workaholism. In the present study, 988 employees (55.6% males, mean age 36.09, SD = 9.23) from a large consultant firm participated in a cross-sectional survey assessing work variables such as job demands, job control, social support, effort, reward, and overcommitment. Workaholism was also assessed together with eight different health-related outcomes. Although direct effects of the work stressors on health were found on most health outcomes, the work-related stressors were overall strongly related to workaholism (R² = 0.522), which, in turn, was positively related to four (anxiety/insomnia, somatic symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and social dysfunction) of the eight outcome variables. Of a total of 40 relationships between work-related stressors and health outcomes, workaholism fully mediated three of these, and partly mediated 12. Overall, the study suggests that the effects of work-related stressors on health in many cases may be mediated by workaholism.
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