Studies Found the Work Addiction Risk and Its Connection with Health Problems

Being a workaholic is common among people who are working for several years. Some people are serious about their work and become addicted to it. However, recent researches have declared that being too much workaholic can lead to various health-related problems. People are found with common psychological issues such as depression, sleeping disorders, and anxiety. People’s perception about job control and demand is the primary reason that makes employees work addicted.

People who are workaholics are used to work for seven to eight hours or more a day for the whole week. There must be some potential reasons that are stimulating them to work, such as poor marriage, peer pressures, supervision, and financial problems, and in some of the cases, it is due to the obsession with the career.

Moreover, being a workaholic is also termed as a behavioral problem, which implies that a person is too much involved in work when the employer doesn’t need it or even expect it.

The studies were conducted in a country that has an increasing number of occupations. The researchers investigated the connection between the risk of work addiction and physical and psychological health issues. They come up with the results that, people with high job demands are linked with work addiction risk. There is a higher risk of work addiction inactive and high-strain workers as compared to the employees with passive and low-strain.

People who fall in those two categories are likely to have negative outcomes due to the risk of work addiction, which includes stress, sleep disorder, depression, and other health related problems.

Researchers have found that job demands are the major factor that plays a prominent role in developing the risk of work addiction. However, it has been recommended to the organization’s management, such as HR staff, or psychologists to investigate and control the issues.

Some of the people who are too obsessed with their job and career become more enthusiastic to achieve their goals. Money makes people greedy, and this is also a reason for some of the health related issues caused due to work addiction. The urge for a good position and a handsome salary package most of the time increases the level of anxiety in people.

Another assumption is the job environment same as the job demands in all the job categories, which are said to stimulate the rate of work addiction risk. The study mainly focuses on the external factor, which includes the job demands, not the internal factors that could be the personal features.

Moreover, researchers have examined that when people with increased risk of work addiction are compared with the masses having a low risk of work addiction are found with the risk of having depression. There was low sleep quality in people who are at a higher risk as compared to the people who are at a lower risk of work addiction. Moreover, they further added that women have almost twice the work addiction risk as compared to men.