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This study examines the effect of two aspects of employee workaholism, working excessively (WE) and working compulsively (WC), on job satisfaction and turnover intention through personal relationship impairment. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted on a sample of 732 salaried workers from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). The results were as follows. First, both WE and WC were found to affect job satisfaction negatively and the relationship was completely mediated by personal relationship impairment. Both WE and WC increased personal relationship impairment and this, in turn, led to a decrease in job satisfaction. Second, the effects of WE and WC differed. WC had a more detrimental effect on personal relationship impairment compared to WE; thus, the indirect effect of workaholism on job satisfaction through personal relationship impairment was greater for WC than WE. With the use of KLIPS data, this study provides an opportunity to investigate the effect of workaholism on workers on a national scale. This study provides an extensive review on workaholism research, particularly on workaholism measures used in workaholism studies in Korea, and discussed the usefulness of using the DUWAS scale. Finally, by focusing on the possibility that workaholism affects workers’ personal relationships, not limited to marital or family relationships, this study expands the scope of previous work-family research to broader realms. Further implications and limitations of the study are discussed.