ABSTRACT

The purpose of this two-wave longitudinal study was to examine the associations between work engagement and workaholism to better understand the psychological mechanisms underpinning high levels of work investment. These associations were examined in a sample of 514 employees using latent change models, allowing us to obtain a direct and explicit estimate of change occurring in both constructs over a 3-year period. These analyses relied on a bifactor representation of work engagement and workaholism, allowing us to properly disaggregate the global and specific levels of both constructs in the estimation of these longitudinal associations. To further enrich our theoretical understanding of the mechanisms at play in these relations, we also considered associations between these two constructs and employees’ levels of harmonious and obsessive work passion, two other facets of heavy work investment. Our results revealed the longitudinal independence of employees’ global levels work engagement and workaholism, showing that longitudinal associations between these two constructs occurred at the specific, rather than global, level. Harmonious work passion was only found to be associated to global and specific components of work engagement, whereas obsessive work passion was found to be associated with global and specific components of both work engagement and workaholism.

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这项两波纵向研究的目的是研究工作投入与工作狂之间的联系，以更好地理解支撑高水平工作投资的心理机制。使用潜在变更模型在514名员工的样本中检查了这些关联，这使我们能够获得直接和显式的估计，即三年内这两种构造中发生的变更。这些分析依赖于工作投入和工作狂的双因素表示，这使我们能够在估计这些纵向关联时适当地分解这两种结构的整体水平和特定水平。为了进一步丰富我们对这些关系中起作用机制的理论理解，我们还考虑了这两种结构之间的联系以及员工的和谐和强迫性工作热情水平，这是繁重的工作投入的另外两个方面。我们的研究结果揭示了员工在全球层面的工作参与和工作狂的纵向独立性，表明这两个结构之间的纵向关联发生在特定而非全球层面。和谐的工作激情仅被发现与工作参与的全球和特定组成部分相关，而强迫性的工作热情被发现与工作参与和工作狂的全球和特定组成部分相关。表明这两个结构之间的纵向关联发生在特定而不是全局级别。和谐的工作热情仅与工作参与的全球和特定组成部分相关，而强迫性工作热情与工作参与和工作狂的全球和特定组成部分相关。表明这两个结构之间的纵向关联发生在特定而不是全局级别。和谐的工作热情仅与工作参与的全球和特定组成部分相关，而强迫性工作热情与工作参与和工作狂的全球和特定组成部分相关。