Even when they’re engaged in their passion – work – workaholics’ mood tends to be worse than that of their non-work-addict counterparts, with workaholism sharing similarities with other addictions, finds research. 

The research by Cristian Balducci from the University of Bologna (Rimini Campus), Luca Menghini from the University of Trento and Paola Spagnoli from the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, was published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.