Workload, Workaholism, and Job Performance: Uncovering Their Complex Relationship

Paola Spagnoli, Nicholas J. Haynes, Liliya Scafuri Kovalchuk, Malissa A. Clark, Carmela Buono and Cristian Balducci
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Paola Spagnoli: Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Nicholas J. Haynes: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Liliya Scafuri Kovalchuk: Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Malissa A. Clark: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Carmela Buono: Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Cristian Balducci: Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 18, 1-20

Abstract: The current study aimed to test how workload, via workaholism, impacts job performance along with the complex interplay of perfectionistic concerns and work engagement in this mediated relationship. A two-wave, first and second stage dual-moderated mediation model was tested in an SEM framework. Results based on a sample of 208 workers revealed a complex and nuanced relationship among the studied constructs, such that the simple mediation model was not significant, but the indirect effect was negative, nonsignificant, or positive conditional on both moderators. The results offer interesting theoretical and practical implications for future studies to be conducted in this area of research. In particular, lower levels of perfectionistic concerns were associated with a positive relationship between workload and workaholism, and lower levels of work engagement were related to a negative link between workaholism and job performance. Findings suggest work engagement should be monitored and promoted by managers, especially when workload, and consequently, the possible risk of workaholism, cannot be avoided.

Keywords: workaholism; workload; perfectionism; work engagement; job performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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