Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Int J Behav Med. 2010 Jun;17(2):154-60. doi: 10.1007/s12529-010-9077-x.
The underlying mechanisms connecting workaholism on the one hand and ill-health and performance on the other hand have to date hardly been examined empirically.
The aim was to study the mediating role of coping (i.e., active coping and emotional discharge) in the relationship between workaholism, ill-health (i.e., psychological distress and physical complaints), and job performance.
A theory-based model was tested among 757 employees of a Japanese construction machinery company.
Workaholism was positively related to active coping, which was, in its turn, negatively associated with ill-health and positively with job performance. Workaholism was also positively related to emotional discharge, which was positively associated with ill-health. In addition, workaholism was positively and directly related to ill-health, whereas it was not significantly related to job performance.
Workaholism is associated with both active coping and emotional discharge. Active coping leads to better health and performance, whereas emotional discharge leads to poor health. In addition, workaholism coincides with poor health. Since the costs for workaholics themselves (in terms of ill-health) are high, workaholism has on average adverse effects on health and performance.
迄今为止，工作狂与健康状况不佳和绩效之间的联系的潜在机制几乎没有经过实证检验。
本研究旨在探讨应对方式（即积极应对和情绪宣泄）在工作狂、健康状况不佳（即心理困扰和身体不适）和工作绩效之间的关系中的中介作用。
在一家日本建筑机械公司的 757 名员工中测试了一个基于理论的模型。
工作狂与积极应对呈正相关，而积极应对又与健康状况不佳呈负相关，与工作绩效呈正相关。工作狂与情绪宣泄呈正相关，而情绪宣泄与健康状况不佳呈正相关。此外，工作狂与健康状况不佳呈正相关，与工作绩效无显著相关。
工作狂与积极应对和情绪宣泄都有关。积极应对会导致更好的健康和绩效，而情绪宣泄则会导致较差的健康状况。此外，工作狂与健康状况不佳一致。由于工作狂本身（在健康方面）的成本很高，因此工作狂平均对健康和绩效有不利影响。
