Drug, nicotine, and alcohol use among exercisers: Does substance addiction co-occur with exercise addiction? [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2018 Background: Scholastic works suggest that those at risk for exercise addiction are also often addicted to illicit drugs, nicotine, and/or alcohol, but empirical evidence is lacking.
Attila Szabo +3 more
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The Associations between Obsessive Compulsive Personality Traits, Self-Efficacy, and Exercise Addiction [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Exercise addiction refers to maladaptive exercise patterns involving compulsivity and addiction-like behaviors. Exercise addiction has been found to relate to negative physical and mental health outcomes such as heart abnormalities, physical injuries ...
Catherine So Kum Tang +2 more
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Socio-ecological correlates of exercise procrastination and exercise addiction: a preliminary exploratory study using a single-university sample [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryExercise procrastination and exercise addiction reflect two maladaptive patterns at opposite ends of the physical-activity spectrum, yet their socio-ecological correlates among university students remain unclear.
Yuxia Wang +3 more
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Exercise addiction in college students: the impact of body dissatisfaction, stress, physical activity and gender [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionEngaging in physical activity is commonly regarded as beneficial to health. However, exercise addiction may arise when enthusiasm for exercise reaches a level that disrupts life balance and overall well-being.
Ying Wang +5 more
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Exercise Addiction and Major Depressive Disorder – Clinical Diagnoses and Longitudinal Course [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2023 Background: People at risk of exercise addiction report increased symptoms of psychopathology. The aim of this study was to clinically assess the lifetime prevalence of depressive disorders in individuals at risk of exercise addiction and to determine ...
Amos Tschopp +4 more
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Mental Disorders in Individuals With Exercise Addiction—A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background and Aims: Exercise addiction has not yet been designated as an addictive disorder in the DSM-5 due to a lack of detailed research. In particular, associations with other psychiatric diagnoses have received little attention.
Maximilian Meyer +6 more
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Exercise-Based Interventions for Internet Addiction: Neurobiological and Neuropsychological Evidence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 With the increase in the number of internet users, the problems associated with excessive internet use have become increasingly obvious. Internet addiction can alter neurobiology, and its symptoms can be alleviated through exercise, but whether exercise ...
Shanshan Li +4 more
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Genome-Wide Association Study of Exercise Addiction Among Elite Wrestlers [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Exercise addiction, marked by an inability to control exercise and associated with distress that clinically impairs daily activities, is a significant but underrecognized issue in physical activity and health.
Celal Bulgay +8 more
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Sex differences in exercise and drug addiction: A mini review of animal studies
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2014 Growing literature has demonstrated that exercise may be an effective prevention and treatment option for drug addiction. In the past few years, many studies have suggested that there were sex differences in all phases of drug addiction.
Yuehui Zhou, Chenglin Zhou, Rena Li
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Mental disorders in individuals at risk for exercise addiction – A systematic review
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2020 Introduction: Exercise addiction is one of several behavioral addictions which has not yet been designated as an addictive disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5).
Flora Colledge +5 more
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