Adopting affective disposition, self-efficacy and psychological ownership as predictors of workaholism, the study investigated the relations of these predictors with workaholism. Also, as dependent variables of workaholism, the study analyzed the rela...
Adopting affective disposition, self-efficacy and psychological ownership as predictors of workaholism, the study investigated the relations of these predictors with workaholism. Also, as dependent variables of workaholism, the study analyzed the relations among positive aspects such as organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior and negative aspects such as job strain. This study, which was carried out with 699 sample subjects from 20 businesses, showed the following results.
First, it was possible to confirm the effects of affective disposition on workaholism. Positive affectivity and negative affectivity, in particular, showed high explanatory power over workaholism: while positive affectivity had significant explanatory power over both work drive and work enjoyment, negative affectivity was only related to work drive. Compared to positive affectivity, negative affectivity showed higher explanatory power over workaholism.
Second, in the relationship between negative affectivity and work drive, with respect to two antithetic logics, one being the despair theory in motivation, that is the hypothesis that negative affectivity reduces motivation, and the other being the hypothesis that negative affectivity will have a strong internal drive to work in order to maintain self-esteem due to stronger sensitivity to negative information, it was found that the latter had higher explanatory power than the former.
Third, in the relationship between self-efficacy and workaholism, both showed significant explanatory power. Self-efficacy was significant to work drive and work enjoyment but did not show such a high explanatory power.
Fourth, it was confirmed that psychological ownership can be an important predictor of workaholism. Psychological ownership, in particular, showed high explanatory power over work enjoyment. This suggests that when psychological ownership is heightened people may perform their work very happily and positively.
Firth, work drive can have a positive effect on organizational outcome, but it has a stronger effect on organizational citizenship behavior than organizational commitment. This indicates that work drive can serve the role of stimulating organizational citizenship behavior. From this, the study presented an important finding that negative affectivity can bring out organizational citizenship behavior through work drive. On the other hand, psychological ownership served a mediating role or strongly increasing organizational commitment through work enjoyment and drastically decreasing job strain. This can be seen as an important finding demonstrating once again the importance of psychological ownership. These findings about workaholism has important implications for organizational outcome in terms of both theory and practice.
The relationship between the independent variables such as affective disposition, self-efficacy and psychological ownership and the dependent variables such as organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior and job strain revealed the following results.
Positive affectivity had no affect on organizational outcome variable. However, negative affectivity showed a strong positive effect on job strain. This corresponds to the finding from previous research that emphasized the negative effects of negative affectivity on organization.
Next, self-efficacy only affects organizational citizenship behavior. However, psychological ownership showed a high explanatory power over organizational commitment (ß=.627, p<.001), and showed significant explanatory power over organizational citizenship behavior (ß=.308, p<.001) and job strain(ß=-.232, p<.001). These results suggest that psychological ownership is a very important variable for organizational outcome variable.
The study results described above suggest that, with respect to theoretical aspects, workaholism can have a major impact on organizational outcome variables. While positive aspects and negative aspects co-exist in workaholism, the positive aspects of workaholism stood out in this study. These findings are expected to contribute to the theoretical development of workaholism. Also, with respect to practical aspects, the study results show that management of negative affectivity is very important and that psychological ownership, especially, when combined with positive aspects of workaholism can have major contribution to organizational outcome.