Relationship between teachers' workaholism tendencies and work-family balance

This research purposed to find out the relationship between the workaholism levels and work-family balance (work-family conflict, family-work conflict, life satisfaction) of teachers. This is a descriptive survey and the research population consisted of the teachers who were working in the state schools such as nursery, primary, secondary schools in the centre of Kütahya. Research sample composed of 520 teachers. In order to collect the data, research instruments called "Workaholism Scale" and "Work Family Balance Scale" were used. Descriptive statistics, the t-test, the variance analysis (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. According to the results of the research nearly more than half of the teachers have not workaholism tendencies. Teachers who have workaholism tendencies are mostly enthusiastic addicts, work enthusiasts and work addicts. Those who have no workaholism tendencies are mostly unengaged workers, reluctant hard workers, alienated professionals, relaxed workers and disenchanted workers. When compared with family-work conflict and work-family conflict dimensions, life satisfaction levels of the teachers are more than them. The more work enjoyment level of the work enthusiasts is high, the more life satisfaction level of theirs is high. On the other hand, as long as unengaged workers have high levels of work involvement, they have low levels of conflict in work-family conflict dimension or vice versa. As long as unengaged workers have high levels of work enjoyment, they have low levels of conflict in family-work conflict dimension or vice versa. Key words: Work addiction, workaholism, work family balance, teachers, life satisfaction