Work Addiction in a Buddhist Population

This is part of the global project on work addiction, which was financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, under grant no. 2020/39/D/HS6/00198 (“The role of macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors in work addiction and related health problems”). The project is led by the consortium of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland (Prof. Edyta Charzyńska) and the University of Gdańsk, Poland (Prof. Paweł A. Atroszko). The dataset “Data” (available in CSV UTF-8 and XLSX formats) contains data collected from 176 full-time employed Buddhists living in Sri Lanka. The data were used to assess the prevalence of work addiction among Buddhists living and working in a Buddhist-majority country, examine the relationship between religiosity and work addiction, and explore the moderating roles of gender and age in this relationship. Data were collected online between November 2022 and February 2023 using the LimeSurvey platform. Statistical analyses included calculating descriptive statistics, conducting reliability analysis, performing correlations, and conducting moderation analysis. The analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS version 28 (IBM Corp., 2021) and the PROCESS macro for SPSS, version 4.2 (Hayes, 2022). List of Funding Sources:This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland [grant number 2020/39/D/HS6/00198]. The research activities related to Edyta Charzyńska’s research stay at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, from 1 to 30 June 2024, were co-financed by the funds granted under the Research Excellence Initiative and Gender Equality Plan at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Files Attached: (i) Dataset; (ii) Codebook; (iii) SPSS Output Matrix for Gender as a Moderator; (iv) SPSS Output Matrix for Age as a Moderator; and (V) README file.