PSYCHOLOGICAL VALIDATION AND CULTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE “THE WORKAHOLISM FACET-BASED SCALE” (WFBS)

Abstract

The research is relevant due to a misleading opinion that workaholism isn’t a problem. Nowadays some people even consider workaholism as a positive personality trait. Actually, workaholism is one of the greatest problems of humanity and individuals. Workaholism stands in the same rank as other addictions, such as alcohol and drug ones. And workaholics or addicted to work people become more and more lost for society, willingly imprisoning themselves into their job and, moreover, they aren’t mostly capable of realizing their problem and dealing with it. It’s very important to detect workaholism in time in order to cure the person psychologically, while the illness doesn’t damage the person’s sanity and his/her social welfare.
At present, there are no Ukranian questionnaires to diagnose people with workaholism, so Ukranian’s primary task is to culturally interpret foreign tests and to conduct psychological validation to study workaholism among the country’s population. The results of this research lead to making an Ukranian questionnaire to diagnose workaholism. The methodology can be used countrywide in order to run experimental diagnostic studies of this category of the population.