Cross-national and longitudinal investigation of a short measure of workaholism

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Cross-national and longitudinal investigation of a short measure of workaholism

Johanna Rantanen Taru Feldt Jari J. Hakanen Katja Kokko Mari Huhtala Lea Pulkkinen Wilmar Schaufeli Leerstoel Schaufeli Work And Organizational Psychology: Occupational Health Psychology

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Adult Male Work Longitudinal study Factorial Adolescent Psychometrics Psychometrics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Confirmatory factor analysis Young Adult Statistics Humans Toxicology and Mutagenesis Longitudinal Studies Factorial validity Finland Aged Netherlands Drive Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Measure (data warehouse)Cross-national Workaholism Environmental and Occupational Health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Confirmatory factor analysis Behavior Addictive Health Scale (social sciences)Compulsive Behavior Original Article Female Public Health Industrial and organizational psychology Longitudinal study Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology Cross national

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The present study investigated the factor structure of the 10-item version of the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS). The DUWAS-10 is intended to measure workaholism with two correlated factors: working excessively (WE) and working compulsively (WC). The factor structure of the DUWAS-10 was examined among multi-occupational samples from the Netherlands (n=9,010) and Finland (n=4,567) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). CFAs revealed that the expected correlated two-factor solution showed satisfactory fit to the data. However, a second-order factor solution, where WE comprised the first-order factors “working frantically” and “working long hours”, and WC the first-order factors “obsessive work drive” and “unease if not working”, showed significantly better fit to the data. The expectation of factorial group invariance of the second-order factor structure between the Dutch and Finnish samples was also supported. Moreover, factorial time invariance was observed across a two-year time lag in a sub-sample of Finnish managers (n=459). In conclusion, the DUWAS-10 was found to be a comprehensive measure of workaholism, meeting the criteria of factorial validity in multiple settings, and can thus be recommended for use in both research and practice. peerReviewed

year	journal	country	edition	language
2015-04-01

https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/323267