Quickie: Is Your Partner Addicted to Work?
Check for these signs
Do you have a hard time convincing your partner to take time off from work? Is your partner constantly glued to their phone looking for emails from coworkers — even when they’re on the toilet? Do most of your conversations revolve around what’s going on in their workplace?
If so, there’s a good chance that your partner may be addicted to work.
“Addiction to work is a kind of psychosocial problem that is characterized by two primary features — working excessively and working compulsively.”
Sound crazy? Not according to Spanish researchers, who have estimated that 12 percent of Spain’s population is suffering from workaholism — and this addiction is having a negative effect on their physical and mental health.
“Addiction to work is a kind of psychosocial problem that is characterized by two primary features — working excessively and working compulsively,” said researcher Mario Del Líbano, one of the authors of the paper “Validity of a brief workaholism scale,” which appeared in the Spanish journal Psicothema. “People are only workaholics if, on top of working excessively, they work compulsively in order to reduce anxiety and the feelings of…
