The Exercise Addiction Inventory: A New Brief Screening Tool
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Many attempts have been made to define and measure problem exercising but there has not been any successful attempt to produce a psychometrically sound assessment instrument. The aim of the present study was to develop a psychometric instrument (the Exercise Addiction Inventory, EAI) capable of identifying people at risk from exercise addiction. The intention was to develop a short form inventory that would be quick and simple to administer. The EAI was operationalised using the components of behavioural addiction proposed by Griffiths (Griffiths, M.D. (1996). Behavioural addiction: an issue for everybody? Journal of Workplace Learning, 8(3), 19–25). The study presents the psychometric properties of the EAI, which are manifested in very good internal reliability, content validity, concurrent validity, and construct validity. It is concluded that the EAI could be a valid and reliable instrument capable of quickly and easily identifying individuals at risk from exercise addiction.
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Many psychometric instruments assessing the risk of developing various behavioral addictions have been developed over the past decade based upon Griffiths' (2005) components model of addiction.
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- Authors
- Terry, A., Szabo, A., & Griffiths, M.
- Affiliations
- Nottingham Trent University (GB)
- School of Science, Division of Sport, Nottingham Trent Unirersity
- ORCID
- Griffiths, Mark
- Venue
- Addiction Research & Theory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2004-10-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 489-499
- ISSN
- 1058-6989 (ISSN-L)
- 1606-6359
- 1476-7392
- OpenAlex
- W2092117464
- Cited by
- 504
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 2.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2018-11-18)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Addiction Research & Theory (publishedVersion)
- Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- exercise addiction, Exercise Addiction Inventory, screening tool, behavioral addiction, psychometric validation, risk identification, internal consistency, content validity, concurrent validity, construct validity
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