Am I a Workaholic Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- I decide whether rest, a personal task, or work would be most useful at that moment
- I relax, though part of me wonders whether I should use the time productively
- I look for a work task because an unused hour feels wasteful
- I immediately fill it with work and feel uneasy doing anything else
- I disconnect and let the designated people handle it
- I make one limited check at a time I chose in advance
- I check most days so I do not feel out of touch
- I stay closely involved and continue handling work as it arises
- I engage easily with the new subject
- I occasionally connect the topic back to something from work
- I often steer the conversation back toward projects or problems
- I struggle to stay interested unless work remains the focus
Am I a Workaholic Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People who feel pulled toward constant productivity, struggle to switch off, or notice work crowding out sleep and relationships may use the Am I a Workaholic Quiz to organize those experiences. This workaholic quiz is intended for self-reflection by people considering their own work patterns. Its result indicates whether pressure, detachment difficulties, and interference with everyday life appear relatively contained or more persistent.
What This Assessment Explores
Rather than judging a single busy spell, the questionnaire examines recurring patterns around free time, unfinished tasks, delegation, sleep, health, relationships, and enjoyment outside work. It asks whether productivity feels internally pressured, remains mentally present during rest, or displaces important parts of life.
Because this is a self-report workaholism assessment, its result describes the respondent’s own work habits and reactions, not those of a husband or partner, so it cannot answer whether someone else is a workaholic. The displayed dimensions are:
- Compulsive Work Drive (0-15) reflects pressure to produce or control: Choice-led effort (0-5), Productivity pressure (6-10), or Compulsive drive (11-15).
- Difficulty Detaching From Work (0-15) reflects switching off: Flexible detachment (0-5), Uneven detachment (6-10), or Persistent attachment (11-15).
- Impact on Recovery and Life (0-15) reflects work displacing recovery, relationships, health, or meaningful activity: Limited disruption (0-5), Noticeable trade-offs (6-10), or Broad interference (11-15).
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each item presents four ordered choices, moving from flexible reactions toward greater pressure, persistence, or interference. Answers produce three separate scores, but the questionnaire does not state how many points each response adds. Interpret results only through the documented ranges and bands, which indicate relative intensity within this questionnaire.
As a workaholism test, its closest published reference is the Work Addiction Risk Test (Flowers & Robinson, 2002). This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument’s focus on work-addiction risk, but is not presented as its adaptation. Spence and Robbins (1992) examine work involvement through drive and enjoyment, while Schaufeli, Shimazu, and Taris (2009) distinguish working excessively from working compulsively. These studies provide context, not validation of this exact form.
The Impact on Recovery and Life score is explicitly described as an unvalidated reflective summary; the other scales are reflective, non-diagnostic results. Answers can shift with workload, recall, workplace culture, deadlines, financial pressure, health, and relationship demands. Read a high pattern as a prompt to examine boundaries and recovery, especially when sleep, safety, or relationships are affected.
- Flowers, Claudia P., & Robinson, Bryan. (2002). A Structural and Discriminant Analysis of the Work Addiction Risk Test. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 62(3), 517-526. 10.1177/00164402062003008
- Schaufeli, W. B., Shimazu, A., & Taris, T. W. (2009). Being Driven to Work Excessively Hard: The Evaluation of a Two-Factor Measure of Workaholism in the Netherlands and Japan. Cross-Cultural Research, 43(4), 320-348. 10.1177/1069397109337239
- Spence, J. T., & Robbins, A. S. (1992). Workaholism: Definition, Measurement, and Preliminary Results. Journal of Personality Assessment, 58(1), 160-178. 10.1207/s15327752jpa5801_15
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