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Attached to… work. An engagement in work as a reflection of the attachment styleThe main purpose of this theoretical article was to present the relationships between workaholism and attachment style. Firstly, the status of workaholism, its meaning and place in the international classifications of mental diseases were shortly presented. Then, the assumptions of the classical attachment theory were described. In the presented article the results of Hazan and Shaver’s (1990) research were shown as an example of the relationship between work engagement and type of attachment style. A brief synthesis presenting workaholic types connected with a given attachment style was also done.