Psychometric properties of the Bergen Work Addiction Scale in a Greek sample of health professionals

BACKGROUND Work addiction it is an emerging topic in organizational research because it has a great impact on human resourc-es, especially in the health sector, and has led to the de-velopment of a number of valid assessment tools. Among work addiction scales, the Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS) has good psychometric properties and a small number of items, and comes with a recommended cut-off for categorization of work addiction. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the BWAS in a Greek sample of health professionals (HPs) and to measure their work addiction. PARTICIPANTS AND PROCEDURE A cross sectional study using an online questionnaire relat-ed to work addiction was completed by 542 HPs through the official websites of 8 secondary hospitals in Greece. RESULTS The level of HPs' work addiction was moderate. The inter- nal structure of the scale was satisfactory (alpha = .78). All sev- en items of the BWAS were significant and had standard- ized values above 0.48. Work addiction was significantly associated with older age and the profession of physician. CONCLUSIONS Based on the findings of the present study, the Greek BWAS has good psychometric properties, such as good re- liability, internal consistency and construct validity and is recommended as a suitable tool to assess work addiction in clinical settings and future research.