Exercise addiction is widely studied, but an official clinical diagnosis does not exist for this behavioral addiction. Earlier research using various screening instruments examined the absolute scale values while investigating the disorder. The Exercise Addiction Inventory-3 (EAI-3) was recently developed with two subscales, one denoting health-relevant exercise and the other addictive tendencies. The latter has different cutoff values for leisure exercisers and elite athletes. Therefore, the present 15-country study (n = 3,760) used the EAI-3 to classify the risk of exercise addiction (REA), but only if the participant reported having had a negative exercise-related experience. Based on this classification, the prevalence of REA was 9.5% in the sample. No sex differences, and few cross-national differences were found. However, collectivist countries reported greater REA in various exercise contexts than individualist countries. Moreover, the REA among athletes was (i) twice as high as...
Prevalence of the Risk of Exercise Addiction Based on a New Classification: A Cross-Sectional Study in 15 Countries / Chhabra, Bhavya; Granziol, Umberto; Griffiths, Mark D.; Zandonai, Thomas; Landolfi, Emilio; Solmi, Marco; Zou, Liye; Yang, Peiying; Lichtenstein, Mia Beck; Stoll, Oliver; Akimoto, Takayuki; Cantù-Berrueto, Abril; Larios, Angelica; Egorov, Aleksei Y.; de la Vega Marcos, Ricardo; Alpay, Merve; Nazlıgül, Merve Denizci; Yildirim, Mustafa; Trott, Mike; Portman, Robert M.; Szabo, Attila. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION. - ISSN 1557-1874. - 2024:(2024). [10.1007/s11469-024-01322-z]
Prevalence of the Risk of Exercise Addiction Based on a New Classification: A Cross-Sectional Study in 15 Countries
Zandonai, Thomas;
2024-01-01
Abstract
Exercise addiction is widely studied, but an official clinical diagnosis does not exist for this behavioral addiction. Earlier research using various screening instruments examined the absolute scale values while investigating the disorder. The Exercise Addiction Inventory-3 (EAI-3) was recently developed with two subscales, one denoting health-relevant exercise and the other addictive tendencies. The latter has different cutoff values for leisure exercisers and elite athletes. Therefore, the present 15-country study (n = 3,760) used the EAI-3 to classify the risk of exercise addiction (REA), but only if the participant reported having had a negative exercise-related experience. Based on this classification, the prevalence of REA was 9.5% in the sample. No sex differences, and few cross-national differences were found. However, collectivist countries reported greater REA in various exercise contexts than individualist countries. Moreover, the REA among athletes was (i) twice as high as...I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
