Prevalência e preditores da adição ao trabalho em gestores

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to investigate the prevalence and predictors related to managers' work addiction, as well as evaluate if life satisfaction could be a measurement variable in the relation between work addiction and psychological well-being. This work is composed by three articles, structured in sections. Section I introduces a theoretical study that aims to show a systematic review of international bibliography about the factors related to work addiction in managers carried out in the EBSCO database. The results point to the existence of consensus and controversy around variables related to the work addiction dimensions, showing the need of a step forward in the research agenda on the theme, considering the identified gaps. Section II shows two empirical studies. The first one identifying the prevalence, checking if the sociodemographic, labor, work engagement, professional performance, motivation and life satisfaction variables predict work addiction in managers. The results showed that overpressure work dimension revealed a predictor model in the variables of life satisfaction, dedication, absorption, technology use time and current role, while the compulsive work dimension was explained by the absorption, life satisfaction, worked weekend hours, prevention focus and worker age. On the other hand, the second empirical study evaluated if life satisfaction could be a mediator variable in the relation between work addiction and psychological well-being. The results showed the importance of life satisfaction as a variable and that it may attenuate the impact of compulsive and excessive work in the psychological well-being, assisting the understanding of one of the possible protection mechanisms for the psychological health. The set of empirical studies aims to: (1) make important contributions in the Occupational Health Psychology area, mainly in the Brazilian context; (2) an environment characterized by hours and tasks excess may help in the rising of work addiction; (3) both the variables related to labor context and the individual ones composed the explicative model of work addiction, reinforcing, therefore, that work addiction is a psychosocial phenomenon; (4) the importance of intervention that contemplate the balance between labor and extralabor activities in managers as a preventive and rehabilitation measure of psychological health. Keywords: work addiction; workaholism; occupational health; managers.