Estudos preliminares para a construção de uma escala de avaliação de workaholism baseada no modelo de Spence e Robbins para professores do ensino particular de Belo Horizonte e região metropolitana

Abstract

This study analyzed the research on workaholism and its assessment tools, most of which show workaholism as a syndrome in which the individual works excessively, usually with little pleasure despite being greatly engaged with the task. The study aimed to find conceptual clarity on this issue, as well as to conduct preliminary studies for the creation of scale to assess the phenomenon of workaholism in the future. The instrument developed consists of a questionnaire which collects sociodemographic data. Using the Likert Scale, the questions covered topics regarding respondents professional and personal lives based on the three-component model by Spence and Robbins (1992). The study included 132 teachers aged between 20 and 61 years, working at private educational institutions in the city of Belo Horizonte and in the Greater Belo Horizonte, who taught Junior High School and High School levels. Quantitative techniques (factor analysis and cluster analysis) were used to analyze the results of this questionnaire, as well as open interviews, after which two subgroups were found: those with a tendency toward workaholism (low pleasure at work and high feeling of being forced to work) and those with no tendency toward workaholism (high pleasure at work and low sense of being forced to work). In addition, multiple regression analysis made it possible to confirm that the independent variables, time devoted to work and work pressure, are relevant to explain the variation observed in the dependent variable (Workaholic Group).