Workaholism in Organizations

Measurement Validation and Replication

Burke, Ronald J.

School of Business, York University, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence should be directed to Ronald J. Burke, School of Business, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

International Journal of Stress Management 6(1):p 45-55, January 1999.

Although workaholism in organizations has received considerable attention in the popular press, our understanding of it based on research is quite limited. This deficit is the result of absence of both suitable definitions and measures of the concept. This study reports the replication of earlier work undertaken by Spence and Robbins (1992) applying their measures to a managerial population (N = 530). Considerable support was found for the usefulness of their measures based on reliability and construct validity data.