Life Balance and Work Addiction Among NCAA Administrators and Coaches

• Published in: The Career development quarterly Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 264 - 270
• Main Authors: Hancock, Meg G., Balkin, Richard S., Reiner, Summer M., Williams, Sarah, Hunter, Quentin, Powell, Brent, Juhnke, Gerald A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria National Career Development Association 01.09.2019; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Addictions; Addictive behaviors; Administrator Responsibility; Anniversaries; Anxiety; Athletic Coaches; Athletic recruitment; career; Career development; Career development planning; Careers; Coaches & managers; coaching; College Athletics; College basketball; College sports; Correlation; Counseling; Discriminant analysis; Drug use; Effect Size; Employee performance; Employees; Estimates; Factor Analysis; Friendship; Gender differences; Global health; intercollegiate administration; Intercollegiate Cooperation; Job Performance; Job satisfaction; Labor Turnover; life balance; Likert scale; Likert Scales; Multiple Regression Analysis; Personal health; Population; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Reliability; Sleep; Sleep disorders; Sports; Statistical Significance; Turnover; work addiction; Work life balance; Working hours
• ISSN: 0889-4019; 2161-0045
• DOI: 10.1002/cdq.12195

Intercollegiate athletics represent an industry prone to challenges of work addiction and life balance. Work addiction and life balance domains in male and female intercollegiate athletic coaches and administrators (N = 245) were examined using multiple regression analysis. Higher levels of stress/anxiety, sleep disturbance, and career satisfaction and lower levels of quality of relationships and friendships were the strongest predictors of work addiction. Counseling focused on reducing the negative aspects of work addiction, while maintaining job performance, may benefit this population.