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  • Organizational Psychology
  • Occupational Health Psychology

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  • Workaholism and overcommitment are often conflated, describing excessive job involvement.
  • High levels in these constructs lead to poor health and job burnout.
  • The distinct relationships between these constructs remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To disentangle workaholism and overcommitment.
  • To compare their antecedents and health consequences.
  • To clarify their unique contributions to job burnout.

Main Methods:

  • Nonprobability mixed-mode research design.
  • 133 employees from diverse Italian organizations.
  • Self- and other-reported measures, partial correlations, and regression analyses.

Main Results:

  • Workaholism and overcommitment are related but distinct.
  • Overcommitment uniquely predicts job burnout.
  • Workaholism correlates more with conscientiousness; overcommitment with neuroticism.

Conclusions:

  • Overcommitment, not workaholism, is the primary driver of job burnout.
  • Overcommitment may represent the truly negative aspect of excessive work drive.
  • Understanding these distinctions is crucial for employee well-being and organizational health.