Work Centrality and Post-Award Work Behavior of Lottery Winners

Individuals who had won the lottery responded to a survey concerning whether they had continued to work after winning. They were also asked to indicate how important work was in their life using items and scales commonly used to measure work centrality. The authors predicted that whether lottery win...

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Published in:The journal of psychology 2004-09, Vol.138 (5), p.404-420
Main Authors: Arvey, Richard D., Harpaz, Itzhak, Liao, Hui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Adult
Attitude
Awards and Prizes
Behavior
Careers
Employment
Employment - statistics & numerical data
Female
Gambling - psychology
Gender
Humans
Hypotheses
importance of work
Job satisfaction
Lotteries
lottery winners
Male
Polls & surveys
Psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Time Factors
Variables
Winners
Women
work behavior
work centrality
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Summary:Individuals who had won the lottery responded to a survey concerning whether they had continued to work after winning. They were also asked to indicate how important work was in their life using items and scales commonly used to measure work centrality. The authors predicted that whether lottery winners would continue to work would be related to their level of work centrality as well as to the amount of their winnings. Individuals who won large amounts in the lottery would be less likely to quit work if they had relatively greater degrees of work centrality. After controlling for a number of variables (i.e., age, gender, education, occupation, and job satisfaction), results indicated that work centrality and the amount won were significantly related to whether individuals continued to work and, as predicted, the interaction between the two was also significantly related to work continuance.
ISSN:0022-3980
1940-1019
DOI:10.3200/JRLP.138.5.404-420