Umberto Granziol, Mark D Griffiths, Liye Zou, Peiying Yang, Hannah K Herschel, Annika Junker, Takayuki Akimoto, Oliver Stoll, Merve Alpay, Zeynep Aydın, Thomas Zandonai, Laura Di Lodovico, Mia Beck Lichtenstein, Mike Trott, Robert M Portman, Melanie Schipfer, Brian Cook, Silvia Cerea, Aleksei Y Egorov, Abril Cantù-Berrueto, Ricardo de la Vega Marcos, Paula Texeira Fernandes, Emilio Landolfi, Zsolt Demetrovics, Eliza E Tóth, Marco Solmi, Attila Szabo
Exercise addiction (EA) refers to excessive exercise, lack of control, and health risks. The Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) is one of the most widely used tools in its assessment. However, the cross-cultural psychometric properties of the EAI could be improved because it misses three pathological patterns, including guilt, exercise despite injury, and experienced harm. Therefore, the present study tested the psychometric properties of the expanded EAI (EAI-3) in a large international sample. The EAI-3 was administered to 1931 physically active adult exercisers speaking five languages (Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Turkish) and other measures for obsessive-compulsive behavior, eating disorders, and personality traits...
May 10, 2023: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction