Exercise Addiction Inventory.

EAI

What it measures

Exercise addiction via the six core addiction components - salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, relapse

Length and format

6 items. 5-point agreement (1-5); summed 6-30; >=24 indicates at-risk of exercise addiction (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, FA, HU; broadly validated

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Terry, A., Szabo, A., & Griffiths, M. (2004). The Exercise Addiction Inventory: A new brief screening tool. Addiction Research & Theory, 12(5), 489-499.