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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Workaholism Battery.

WorkBAT

What it measures
Workaholism as three components - work involvement, drive (inner compulsion), and work enjoyment
Length and format
25 (Work Involvement 8, Drive 7, Work Enjoyment 10). 4-pt Likert (almost never ... almost always) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Validated across many countries - Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Malay and others (approx 15+ langs)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Spence JT, Robbins AS. Workaholism: definition, measurement, and preliminary results. J Pers Assess. 1992;58(1):160-178.

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