Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and a transactional leadership component (management by exception‐active), and fulfillment of the basic needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – Although the concept of workaholism has existed in the academic literature for decades, exploration of its measurements seems to lag behind. The purpose of this study is to present an investigation of the three most commonly used workaholism measures; the Workaholism Battery...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible mediating role of need fulfilment in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee job attitudes (job satisfaction and dedication). Design/methodology/approach – The two samples include both cross-sectional...

Rasch modelling was conducted by applying the lifetime NODS criteria using data from a national representative sample aged from 15 to 74 years in Norway (<italic>N</italic> = 5235). To a large extent, the results replicated previous findings, supporting the view that the DSM-IV gambling symptoms have a...

We conducted a randomised controlled trial pilot study (<italic>N</italic> = 30) with two treatment groups: (1) Manualised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (<italic>n</italic> = 15) and (2) escitalopram combined with CBT (<italic>n</italic> = 15). Treatment was administered individually and the CBT included weekly sessions for eight...

Pictorial stimuli were presented in a Stroop task paradigm that enabled the recording of attentional bias. The sample comprised 33 pathological slot machine gamblers (PG) and 22 control participants. The design of the study had one between-subjects factor -- Group (PGs vs control), and two...