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Validity And Reliability Of The Spence And Robbins Workaholism Battery: A Study In Malaysian Employees, Ammar Almustafa, Guek Nee Ke
Validity And Reliability Of The Spence And Robbins Workaholism Battery: A Study In Malaysian Employees, Ammar Almustafa, Guek Nee Ke
Psychological Research on Urban Society
This psychometric study aims to contribute to the evolving cross-cultural definition of workaholism by exploring the reliability and validity of using the Workaholism Battery (WorkBAT; Spence & Robbins, 1992) in a sample of 183 full-time white-collar workers in Malaysia. Using data from online surveys, collected from full-time white-collar workers in the private and public sectors, factor analysis was used to indicate factor solutions contributing to the definition of workaholism based on the Spence and Robbins (1992) model of high work involvement, high work drive, and low work enjoyment. The study identified three factors and reassigned the items between them into …