Conceptualizing primary and secondary pathological exercise using available measures of excessive exercise

Cunningham, Hayley E.; Pearman, Silas N.; Brewerton, Timothy D.

doi:10.1002/eat.22551

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“…A cut-off score of ≥ 50 can also be used to classify participants as “obligatory exercisers” [5]. In samples of adult males and females, scale scores have been found to have higher correlations with measures of compulsive exercise than with measures of exercise addiction, supporting construct validity [31]. Cronbach’s alpha in the current study was .90 for both male and female samples.…”

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Body dissatisfaction, excessive exercise, and weight change strategies used by first-year undergraduate students: comparing health and physical education and other education students

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BackgroundHealth and Physical Education (HPE) teachers are known to be under social-, personal-, and employment-related pressure to be and appear physically fit, and to use dangerous dieting and weight control practices. This is problematic due to the influence this may have on their own health and the potential to model these attitudes and behaviours to their future students.MethodsIn this paper, we compare the body image, dieting, disordered eating, and exercise behaviours of first year, HPE, and non-HPE, teacher education students. Participants were 596 first-year university student pre-service teachers (n = 249 HPE and n = 347 non-HPE) from three universities in Australia who completed self-report questionnaires. Analysis of covariance and logistic regression analyses were used to determine differences in attitudes and behaviours between these two groups for males and females separately.ResultsWe found that male HPE participants had significantly higher levels of drive for muscularity and obligatory exercise, and were more likely to be classified as having an exercise disorder, dieting, and using steroids than non-HPE students were. Female HPE students were more likely to engage in self-reported excessive exercise, to have higher scores on the Obligatory Exercise Questionnaire, and be classified as having an exercise disorder.ConclusionThese findings are important as they confirm the presence of dieting and disordered eating attitudes and behaviours among all teacher education students, and highlight male HPE teachers as a potentially vulnerable group. These results may inform the implementation of intervention programs for teacher education students to ensure their personal wellbeing and professional capacity in promoting positive body image, nutrition, and physical activity among young people.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40337-016-0133-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Various definitions for excessive, pathological, or obligatory exercise is exist, but generally involve the amount of exercise as well as the level of commitment to it and implications for work and social life [31]. In this study, level of excessive exercise was assessed with the Obligatory Exercise Questionnaire [5].…”

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Body dissatisfaction, excessive exercise, and weight change strategies used by first-year undergraduate students: comparing health and physical education and other education students

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“…Men are more at risk of primary exercise addiction and women secondary exercise addiction. 3,4 The focus of this article will be on primary exercise addiction.…”

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Keep on running: exercise addiction in men

Hausenblas¹,

Smoliga²

2017

Trends Urology & Men Health

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“…Se realizó un estudio poblacional a 1497 adultos donde se encontró que los participantes con síntomas de TCA (14.6%) y el 18.6% de los deportistas obtuvieron resultados significativos de ejercicio problemático (Cunningham et al, 2016). Esto indica que no es la cantidad o intensidad de ejercicio lo que caracteriza al EP, sino la mentalidad con la que uno se dedica ha dicho ejercicio.…”

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Ejercicio físico como herramienta para el tratamiento de los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria

Martínez-Sánchez

Munguía‐Izquierdo

2017

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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RESUMENLos trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) engloban aquellas patologías en las que la obsesión por la delgadez y el miedo a la obesidad condicionan la aparición de un patrón de alimentación inadecuado y de conductas patológicas ligadas al control del peso. El ejercicio ha sido histórica-mente considerado como uno de los síntomas en esta enfermedad, y por ello se ha excluido como tratamiento en estos pacientes. Dentro de los TCA, podemos observar un comportamiento problemático al ejercicio (ejercicio compulsivo) y no necesariamente se da en todos los pacientes que sufren esta patología. Hay evidencia de que la participación en programas de ejercicios estructurados y supervisados (ejercicios de alta intensidad o yoga) puede ser de gran utilidad en esta población clínica, ya que reduce la psicopatología, mejora la fuerza muscular, la calidad de vida, el bienestar psicológico y facilita el cumplimiento y la adherencia al tratamiento.Palabras clave: trastornos de la conducta alimentaria; ejercicio; actividad física; tratamiento. ABSTRACTEating disorders (ED) include those pathologies in which the obsession with thinness and the fear of obesity condition the appearance of an inadequate eating pattern and pathological behaviors linked to weight control. Exercise has historically been considered as one of the symptoms in this disease, and therefore it has been excluded as treatment in these patients. Within the ED, we can observe a problematic behavior to the exercise (compulsive exercise) and not necessarily it occurs in all the patients that suffer this pathology. There is evidence that participation in structured and supervised exercise programs (high-intensity resistance training or yoga) can be very useful in this

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Conceptualizing primary and secondary pathological exercise using available measures of excessive exercise

Cited by 122 publications

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Body dissatisfaction, excessive exercise, and weight change strategies used by first-year undergraduate students: comparing health and physical education and other education students

Body dissatisfaction, excessive exercise, and weight change strategies used by first-year undergraduate students: comparing health and physical education and other education students

Keep on running: exercise addiction in men

Ejercicio físico como herramienta para el tratamiento de los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria

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