出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：In this paper, the author addresses the topic of workaholism as it pertains to the characteristics of long-hour workers and conducts an analysis that focuses primarily on workaholism's relationship with state of health. The analysis was conducted in line with three elements of workaholism that were posited by Spence and Robbins (1992); namely, "work enjoyment," "driven," and "work involvement." In looking at the relationship between these three elements of workaholism and working hours, the analysis showed that people who get more enjoyment from their work, feel more inner drive toward their work, or feel a stronger sense of involvement in their work tend to work longer hours. However, the correlation coefficients in this relationship were not very high. In looking at the correlations among the three elements, the analysis found that the relationship between "driven" and "work involvement" was relatively strong and can be viewed as a negative aspect of workaholism, while their re-lationship with "work enjoyment," which is a positive aspect, was weak. Fur-thermore, a multivariate analysis of the impact of the three elements that used state of mental and physical health as an explained variable showed that "driven" has a consistently negative impact on mental and physical health
