Workaholism and Work-Family Conflict: The Role of Gender

This study aims to examine the impact of workaholism on work-family conflict and whether employees’ gender moderates this relationship. The research was conducted with 401 academicians from all public universities (8 in total) in Ankara, selected through a snowball sampling method. Data were analyzed using MPLUS 7 and SPSS 26 statistical software. The findings revealed that workaholism has a significant positive effect on work-family conflict; however, gender did not moderate the relationship between the two variables. Additionally, the results indicated that attitudes toward both workaholism and work-family conflict differ significantly by gender, with women academics reporting higher levels than their male counterparts. These findings suggest that although female academics report higher levels of both workaholism and work-family conflict, gender does not alter the strength of the association between the two, indicating that workaholism contributes to work-family conflict in a similar way across genders.