SynthesisJournal of behavioral addictions2020
Work addiction and personality: A meta-analytic study.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How big five personality traits influence information sharing on social media: A meta analysis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
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- The prevalence of workaholism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Gambling Problems and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The use of Image and Performance-Enhancing Drugs (IPED) in behavioural addictions.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Review
- Low-burden data-driven work addiction screening: Comparing demographic and psychosocial predictors using machine learning.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Relationship between personality types, work addiction, and quality of work life among nurses and healthcare staff in Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toy play.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Caffeine Intake Mediates the Relationship Between Problematic Overstudying and Psychological Distress.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Intact habit learning in work addiction: Evidence from a probabilistic sequence learning task.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Long-term chronicity of work addiction: the role of personality and work motivations.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Burnout, Work Addiction and Stress-Related Growth Among Emergency Physicians and Residents: A Comparative Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Work addiction in nurses: a cross-sectional correlational study of latent profile analysis and burnout.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- The International Work Addiction Scale (IWAS): A screening tool for clinical and organizational applications validated in 85 cultures from six continents.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Perceived coworkers' work addiction: Scale development and associations with one's own workaholism, job stress, and job satisfaction in 85 cultures.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- The Role of Personality in Explaining Burnout, Work Addiction, and Stress-Related Growth in Prehospital Emergency Personnel.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The relationship between work addiction and addictions to social media, shopping, food, caffeine, and nicotine.Australian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Adaptation and validation of the Turkish version of The Brief Screener for Substance and Behavioral Addiction (SSBA).Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trait and state-like differences in the components model of addiction: An illustration through social media addiction and work addiction.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDuring the past three decades, research interest in work addiction has increased significantly. Most definitions concerning work addiction have specifically contained personality-related elements. However, the results of empirical studies concerning personality and work addiction are both few and mixed. The aim of the present study was to explore the role of personality in the background of work addiction.
methodsThe present study systematically reviewed and empirically carried out a meta-analysis on all the published studies examining the association between personality variables and work addiction (n = 28).
resultsThe results of the meta-analysis indicated that perfectionism, global and performance-based self-esteem, and negative affect had the strongest and most robust associations as personality risk factors of work addiction. Among the Big Five traits, extraversion, conscientiousness, and intellect/imaginations showed positive relationships with work addiction. However, these associations were weak.
conclusionsBased on the meta-analysis, personality appears to explain only a small amount of the variance of work addiction and further studies are needed to assess the interaction between individual and environmental factors.
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