Scholarly interest in workaholism has increased dramatically in recent years. This research has underscored the detrimental effects of workaholism for employees, their families, and the organizations that employ them. Despite drastic improvements in the quality of studies examining workaholism over the past several decades, researchers continue to almost exclusively rely on older measures of workaholism or new measures derived from these original measures. In the present study, we outline why a new measure is needed and propose a multidimensional conceptualization of workaholism that encompasses motivational, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. We then develop and validate a new multidimensional measure of workaholism: the Multidimensional Workaholism Scale (MWS). Evidence from 5 samples representing individuals working in a wide variety of occupations and industries throughout the United States (total N = 1,252) provides support that (a) our proposed 4-factor structure replicates and fits better than alternative models; (b) the measure demonstrates high reliability and content validity; (c) the measure demonstrates evidence for convergent and discriminant validity with constructs in workaholism's nomological network; (d) the measure demonstrates incremental validity in the prediction of important outcomes over and above prior measures of workaholism; and (e) the different dimensions demonstrate incremental validity in the prediction of specific outcomes over and above other dimensions of the MWS. Overall, results from the present study suggest that the MWS is a reliable and valid measure that can advance a more nuanced approach to research and practice relating to workaholism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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多维工作狂量表：将工作狂的概念化和测量联系起来。

近年来，学术界对工作狂的兴趣急剧增加。这项研究强调了工作狂对员工、他们的家人和雇用他们的组织的不利影响。尽管在过去几十年中检查工作狂的研究质量有了显着提高，但研究人员仍然几乎完全依赖于旧的工作狂测量或从这些原始测量中得出的新测量。在本研究中，我们概述了为什么需要新的衡量标准，并提出了工作狂的多维概念，包括动机、认知、情感和行为维度。然后，我们开发并验证了一种新的多维工作狂量表：多维工作狂量表 (MWS)。来自代表在美国各种职业和行业工作的个人的 5 个样本的证据（总 N = 1,252）提供了支持：（a）我们提出的 4 因子结构复制和拟合比替代模型更好；(b) 该措施显示出高可靠性和内容效度；(c) 该测量证明了工作狂的规则网络中的结构具有收敛效度和判别效度的证据；(d) 该措施证明了在预测重要结果方面的有效性超过先前工作狂的措施；(e) 与 MWS 其他维度相比，不同维度证明了在预测特定结果方面的增量有效性。全面的，本研究的结果表明，MWS 是一种可靠且有效的衡量标准，可以推进与工作狂相关的研究和实践的更细致入微的方法。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。