Exercise Addiction: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Etiology

Regular physical activity plays a crucial role in health maintenance and disease prevention. However, excessive exercise has the potential to have adverse effects on both physical and mental health. The scholastic and empirical discussion of excessive physical activity focuses on obsessive and compu...

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Published in:Substance use & misuse Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 403 - 417
Main Authors: Berczik, Krisztina, Szabó, Attila, Griffiths, Mark D., Kurimay, Tamás, Kun, Bernadette, Urbán, Róbert, Demetrovics, Zsolt
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Informa Healthcare 01.03.2012
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Addiction
Addictions
Addictive behaviors
Aetiology
Behavior, Addictive - classification
Behavior, Addictive - diagnosis
Behavior, Addictive - epidemiology
Behavior, Addictive - etiology
Behavior, Addictive - physiopathology
behavioral addiction
Compulsive Behavior - diagnosis
Compulsive Behavior - epidemiology
Compulsive Behavior - physiopathology
Diagnosis
Disease prevention
Diseases
Epidemiology
Etiology
Exercise
Exercise - psychology
exercise addiction
Health Problems
Health status
Humans
Knowledge
Medical diagnosis
Mental Health
Neuroses
Obsessive Behavior - diagnosis
Obsessive Behavior - epidemiology
Obsessive Behavior - physiopathology
obsessive-compulsive behavior
Physical activity
Physical Fitness
positive addiction
Prevention
Side effects
Symptoms
ISSN:1082-6084, 1532-2491, 1532-2491
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Summary:Regular physical activity plays a crucial role in health maintenance and disease prevention. However, excessive exercise has the potential to have adverse effects on both physical and mental health. The scholastic and empirical discussion of excessive physical activity focuses on obsessive and compulsive exercising, and uses several labels. However, in this review, we argue that the most appropriate term for this phenomenon is exercise addiction, emphasizing that excessive physical exercise fits the typical and most common characteristics of behavioral addictions. The aim of this review is to synthesize the current knowledge on symptomology, diagnosis, epidemiology, and etiology of exercise addiction.
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ISSN:1082-6084
1532-2491
1532-2491
DOI:10.3109/10826084.2011.639120