The relationship between work addiction and addictions to social media, shopping, food, caffeine, and nicotine

Özsoy, E, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Karaçay, GT, Onay, ÖA, Yılmaz, C and Balaban, Ö, 2025. The relationship between work addiction and addictions to social media, shopping, food, caffeine, and nicotine. Australian Journal of Psychology, 77 (1): 2486774. ISSN 0004-9530

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Abstract

Purpose: Work addiction is a relatively underexplored behaviour compared to other forms of addiction. Existing research predominantly focuses on the antecedents and consequences of work addiction. However, studies examining its relationship with other types of addiction are notably limited. Therefore the present study investigated the relationships between work addiction and five other types of addiction (i.e. social media addiction, shopping addiction, food addiction, caffeine addiction, and nicotine addiction).

Method: The research was conducted with 693 employees working in both public and private sectors. Data were collected through an online survey comprising validated scales for assessing the specific types of addiction and demographic questions. Descriptive statistics, internal consistency tests and Pearson correlation analysis were employed for data analysis.

Results: Correlation analysis showed significant (albeit weak) positive relationships between work addiction and food addiction (r = .14), shopping addiction (r = .12), and caffeine addiction (r = .16). However, no significant relationships were found between work addiction and social media addiction or nicotine addiction. Comorbidity among individuals classified as high-risk for more than one addiction was only observed between two substance-based addictions (caffeine and nicotine), and between one substance-based addiction (caffeine) and one behavioural addiction (social media).

Conclusions: These findings suggest that although multiple behavioural addictions may be associated, the observed comorbidity patterns primarily occur between two substance-based addictions or between a substance-based and a behavioural addiction, rather than between two behavioural addictions.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Australian Journal of Psychology
Creators:	Özsoy, E., Griffiths, M.D., Karaçay, G.T., Onay, Ö.A., Yılmaz, C. and Balaban, Ö.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	2 April 2025
Volume:	77
Number:	1
ISSN:	0004-9530
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/00049530.2025.2486774 DOI 2422567 Other
Rights:	© 2025 the author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	07 Apr 2025 10:08
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 10:08
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53367

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