Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.
Department for Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna.
J Occup Health Psychol. 2024 Aug;29(4):201-219. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000383.
Workaholism literature has been so far focused on individual differences in workaholic tendencies, considering the construct as a stable individual trait and highlighting its health and well-being consequences. Only recently, research has started inspecting the daily dynamics and potential consequences of state workaholism. In this preregistered study, we aimed at systematically investigating the within-individual fluctuations in workaholism levels and their potential short-term and delayed psychophysiological responses as captured by ambulatory assessment integrating subjective and objective data. Using an intensive longitudinal design over 10 workdays with 114 workers from various occupations (2,534 measurement occasions), we found higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, emotional exhaustion, and sleep disturbances in workdays characterized by higher-than-usual workaholism symptoms. Moreover, the reactivity to state workaholism, as indexed by afternoon blood pressure, was found as a mediator of the subsequent prolonged activation indexed by bedtime blood pressure. Finally, we found evidence of a buffering effect of evening psychological detachment on the relationship between state workaholism and sleep disturbances. Overall, our results support the conceptualization of workaholism as a multilevel phenomenon that acts as an internal job-related demand by showing the typical strain reactions triggered by well-characterized external demands. This study contributes to the literature by highlighting that transient workaholism symptoms can result in significant short-term stress responses at different levels, providing new, robust, and multisource evidence that underlies the importance of effectively preventing and managing dysfunctional work investment since its early manifestation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
工作狂文献迄今为止一直侧重于工作狂倾向的个体差异，将该构念视为稳定的个体特征，并强调其对健康和幸福感的影响。直到最近，研究才开始考察状态工作狂的日常动态及其潜在后果。在这项预先注册的研究中，我们旨在系统地研究工作狂水平的个体内波动及其潜在的短期和延迟心理生理反应，方法是通过整合主观和客观数据的动态评估进行研究。我们使用 10 个工作日的密集纵向设计，对来自不同职业的 114 名工人（2534 个测量点）进行了研究，结果发现，在工作狂症状高于平时的工作日中，收缩压和舒张压、情绪疲惫和睡眠障碍的发生率更高。此外，状态工作狂的反应性，以午后血压为指标，被发现是随后由于睡前血压而导致的长时间激活的中介因素。最后，我们发现，晚上的心理解脱对状态工作狂与睡眠障碍之间的关系具有缓冲作用。总的来说，我们的研究结果支持了工作狂是一个多层次现象的概念，它通过表现出由特征明确的外部需求引发的典型压力反应，作为一种内部与工作相关的需求。这项研究通过强调短暂的工作狂症状会在不同层面上导致显著的短期压力反应，为有效预防和管理功能失调的工作投入提供了新的、有力的和多来源的证据，因为工作投入的早期表现就很重要。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
