Abstract
Loneliness at work is described as a situation that arises from poor interpersonal relations at the workplace and one that creates distress. On the other hand, workaholism is commonly defined as an uncontrolled and compulsive inner drive to work excessively hard. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of emotional deprivation and social companionship which were the dimensions of workplace loneliness on working excessively and working compulsively which were the dimensions of workaholism. For this purpose data for the sample was collected from 413 employees and managers who are working in Kardemir Inc. via survey method. Within the structural equation modeling, path analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses. The results show that emotional deprivation had an increasing effect on working excessively and working compulsively. On the other hand, social companionship had an insignificant effect on working excessively and working compulsively.
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