Work addiction in Chinese white-collar workers: the psychometric properties of its measure and its comorbidity with general anxiety in network analysis

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the overall participants (N = 694)

Variables	Categories	N	%
1. Gender	Male	286	41.2
1. Gender	Female	408	58.8
2. Age (years)^#	24 or below	12	1.7
	25–29	232	33.4
	30–34	284	40.9
	35–39	103	14.8
	40–49	48	6.9
	50 or above	15	2.2
3. Job tenure	Less than 1 year	0	0
	1–3 years	78	11.2
	3–5 years	103	14.8
	5–10 years	351	50.6
	More than 10 years	162	23.3
4. Weekly work hours^#	39 or below	32	4.6
	40–49	462	66.6
	50–59	133	19.2
	60–69	49	7.1
	70 or above	18	2.6
5. Industry	Manufacturing industry	200	28.8
	Culture/Sport/Education industry	96	13.8
	Service industry	88	12.7
	Information technology industry	85	12.2
	Banking/Finance industry	81	11.7
	Construction industry	43	6.2
	Medical insurance industry	21	3.0
	Transportation industry	19	2.7
	Others (e.g., Government or non-profit organizations)	61	8.8

Note. ^#We collected participants’ continuous responses on age and weekly work hours and then recoded them as categorical variables in Table 1.

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