Risk of psychological addiction to work (workaholism) inmodern Russia

The article considers the hypothesis that the risk of work addiction progress in Russia ishigher than in mature economics (e.g. France). We received statistically reliable data that 45.42 % of respondents have no signs of workaddiction, 40.83 % of respondents are in the high-risk group of psychological workaholism, 13.75 % respondents demonstrate high workaddiction rates (picture 2). Thus, the research of the intensity level of workaholism in Russian and French samples allows us to assertthat there is a high risk of psychological work addiction in modern society. The results of the statistical analysis demonstrate that theintensity of work addiction among Russians according to statistics is significantly higher (t = 3.742; р = 0.000) than the work addictionintensity among the French. It is also worth to mention that in compliance with normative indicators of the method the mean observationof French sample can be characterized as ''no addiction to work'' level and the mean observation of Russian sample can be referred to asthe risk of work addiction. There are no statistically significant differences of work addiction for men and women. With age the risk ofwork addiction in Russia increases and in France decreases. Our findings also demonstrate the positive correlation between workaddiction risk and life satisfaction. There are no correlations between work addiction risk and the number of children; no differences inwork addiction features between men and women were found. This may indicate that the reasons of work addiction are not in thesociological sphere, but in the area of self-identification and structure of individual life. These hypotheses still need verification andcheck. These findings allow us to suppose that in spite of the fact that in France scholars are much more concerned about work addictionproblem than in Russia, while the real danger of this kind of addiction in Russia is higher. The comparative research of these twosamples allows us to suppose that the risk of work addiction and the perspectives of help in its solution are connected with tendenciesand structure of life in modern society.

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