When thinking of the word addiction you often relate it to drugs alcohol or tobacco but sometimes other things have the same addictive aspect. Activities such as shopping, internet, food, exercise are known as a behavioral addiction. Behavior addictions include salience, conflicts, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal symptoms and .loss of control(Brown,1997). Exercise is mostly known to be a positive addiction because physical activity is known to be beneficial. There is however harmful aspects like injuries,Eating problems, lack of socialism. Hausenblas and Downs defined exercise addiction as a craving for physical activity that results in extreme exercise and generates negative physiological and psychological symptoms. Most studies
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In a validation study of the EDS, the prevalence of exercise addiction was 3.4 % among 266 university 's studies engaged in various forms of physical activity and 3.64 % among students participated in fitness …show more content…
The study found 3% to be at risk or exercise addiction. The EAI showed and exercise prevalence of 6.9% in sport science students and 3.6 among exercisers in fitness centres, though type of sport engagement was not specified (Szabo & Griffiths, 2007). They decided to look at teams prevalence. They expected that team sport players had other motives for exercising (enjoyment) than individual exercisers (health). Whether different motives could lead to same prevalences of exercise addiction was an explorative question. The main purpose of the study was to how exercise addiction existed in teams sports vs individual sports and to test the psychometric properties in their fields. They decided to use Football and Fitness because it was very popular in the population around them.We decided to test a young male population, because a previous study found that this group had higher risk of exercise addiction (Lichtenstein, Christiansen, Bilenberg, & Støving, 2012), but also to avoid gender bias in estimations of prevalences and in assessment of motives for sport
In a validation study of the EDS, the prevalence of exercise addiction was 3.4 % among 266 university 's studies engaged in various forms of physical activity and 3.64 % among students participated in fitness …show more content…
The study found 3% to be at risk or exercise addiction. The EAI showed and exercise prevalence of 6.9% in sport science students and 3.6 among exercisers in fitness centres, though type of sport engagement was not specified (Szabo & Griffiths, 2007). They decided to look at teams prevalence. They expected that team sport players had other motives for exercising (enjoyment) than individual exercisers (health). Whether different motives could lead to same prevalences of exercise addiction was an explorative question. The main purpose of the study was to how exercise addiction existed in teams sports vs individual sports and to test the psychometric properties in their fields. They decided to use Football and Fitness because it was very popular in the population around them.We decided to test a young male population, because a previous study found that this group had higher risk of exercise addiction (Lichtenstein, Christiansen, Bilenberg, & Støving, 2012), but also to avoid gender bias in estimations of prevalences and in assessment of motives for sport