Addiction to exercise : a symptom or a disorder? / / Attila Szabo
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| Autore: |
Szabo Attila <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Addiction to exercise : a symptom or a disorder? / / Attila Szabo
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Nova Science, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (100 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.85/84 |
| Soggetto topico: | Exercise addiction |
| Compulsive behavior | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | From healthy to unhealthy exercise -- The concept of exercise addiction -- Common symptoms of exercise addiction -- Assessment of exercise addiction -- Motivational incentives in exercise addiction -- Models explaining exercise addiction -- The runner's high phenomenon -- Correlates of exercise addiction -- Research on exercise addiction -- Exercise addiction and eating disorders -- What we know -- What we need to know -- General conclusions. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book evaluates the psychological concept of exercise addiction from a scholastically multidisciplinary perspective. The most recent developments in the area of investigation are evaluated with reference to theory and critical analysis of extant research. The book summarizes the current knowledge about the psycho-physiological nature of exercise addiction. Further, it presents the conceptual hegemony in addressing the problem of exercise addiction within the scientific community. The characteristic and most prevalent symptoms of the disorder are discussed alongside the modes of risk-assessment. Subsequently, the underlying motives and several theoretical models of exercise addiction are reviewed. Finally, the research on exercise addiction is evaluated and directions for future research are suggested. Difference is made between primary exercise addiction in which the exercise behavior is the problem and secondary exercise addiction in which exercise is used as a means in achieving another objective, like weight loss. This book concludes with two brief sections summarizing plainly what we know today and what we still need to know about exercise addiction. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Addiction to exercise |
| ISBN: | 1-61761-950-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974196203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Psychology research progress series.