Bergen Work Addiction Scale: Adaptação e Teste de um Modelo Carreira-Trabalho-Família

Abstract

Work Addiction (WA), or popularly workaholism, is characterized as a compulsion or an intrinsic need for work, which cannot control and with adverse effects on health, family, and work dimensions. The Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS) is a current, reduced psychometric measure that addresses this addiction's emotional component. This study aimed to adapt the BWAS to the Brazilian context for the Portuguese language and test the correlations with Protein Career and Work-Family Conflict. A total of 340 people participated in the study, aged between 19 and 67 years (mean = 31.99), most of them women. The adapted scale presented good reliability and fit indices that meet the evidence of internal structure based on the Work Addition theory. Moderate external evidence between BWAS and the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS) corroborates the convergent property of the new scale with the instrument available in the literature. Furthermore, the mediation model indicated that the relationship between Protein Career Orientation and Work-Family Conflict was mediated by Work Addiction. Theoretical applications of BWAS for the diagnostic of Work Addiction are discussed, as well as implications of the phenomenon for the sphere of workfamily interaction.