Quantitative Analysis of Workaholism And Behavior Patterns on The Staff of An Institution of Educational Services

Abstract

Workaholism is a syndrome identified in individuals with excessive compulsive behaviors and beliefs into work activities, and to establish a pattern of behavior oriented and pro-competitive behavior by hostile personality. This paper presents a structured pattern of behavior syndrome and 184 workers in an institution of educational services analysis. Through an instrument which combined elements DUWAS-measuring short version and a questionnaire that identifies Behavior Patterns Based on Personality. With the instrument designed, a linear probability model (MLP) was proposed. It was reported that the variables UT and CP had a significant effect on work addiction. The model presented argues that the addiction of work, is manifested in those people who believe to have an obsessive compulsion to work, and behave with excessive and multiple actions of work, besides having an urgency for the time to fulfill their work impulses.