ergophobia 的詞源

"工作恐懼症"，1905年，由英國醫生威廉·鄧納特·斯潘頓博士創造，由希臘語 ergon "工作"（來自 PIE 詞根 *werg- "做"）和 -phobia "恐懼"組成。

Mr. W.D. Spanton (Leeds) considered that the most prominent causes of physical degeneration were—efforts to rear premature and diseased infants, absurd educational high pressure, cigarette smoking in the younger generation, and late hours at night; in fact, the love of pleasure and ergophobia in all classes of society. He considered that there was too much cheap philanthropy, that life was made too easy for the young poor, and that by modern educational methods proper parental discipline was rendered almost impossible. [report on the 73rd annual meeting of the British Medical Association, in Nature, Aug. 3, 1905]

W·D·斯潘頓先生（利茲）認爲身體退化的最主要原因是：試圖撫養早產兒和患病嬰兒、荒謬的教育高壓、年輕一代的吸菸和夜間熬夜； 事實上，所有社會階層都熱愛享樂和工作恐懼症。他認爲，慈善行爲過於廉價，年輕窮人的生活過於輕鬆，而現代教育方法使得適當的家長管教幾乎不可能。[英國醫學協會第73屆年會報告，刊於《自然》雜誌，1905年8月3日]