Abstract:

Recently, the concepts of workaholism and happiness in business life have been one of the most researched subjects. The research is conducted to examine the relationship between individual happiness and workaholism of health workers working in a public research and practice hospital operating in Isparta. In the scope of the research, a questionnaire is applied to 500 health workers. “Oxford Happiness Scale” and “Duwas Workaholism Scale” are used as data collection tools. In the study, normality assumptions of continuous variables are examined with Shapiro Wilk's test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, variance homogeneity is examined with Levene's test. Mann-Whitney U is used for two-level comparisons where the data are not normally distributed, Kruskall Wallis tests are used for three-level comparisons. The mean of the workaholism scale is 43.56±9.70, and the mean of the individual happiness scale is 87.07±9.69. When the correlation between individual happiness and workaholism scale is examined, it is seen that there is a positive weak statistically significant relationship between them (r=0.323; p<0.001). According to this, for compulsive work, which is the sub-dimension of workaholism, it is determined that the variables of work unit and gender showed significant difference. When an evaluation is made of health workers in terms of individual happiness; significant difference is found in the gender variable.

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