'Always do your best!'—The relationship between food addiction, exercise dependence, and perfectionism in amateur athletes
| Autor: | Brian Cook, C. Hauck, Thomas Ellrott, Melanie Schipfer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Behavioral addiction Food addiction Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Sports science digestive oral and skin physiology Population Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation medicine.disease Eating disorders mental disorders medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Underweight medicine.symptom education Psychology Yale Food Addiction Scale media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research. 50:114-122 |
| ISSN: | 2509-3150 2509-3142 |
| Popis: | Food addiction is discussed as a substance-related addictive disorder, which is prevalent in normal and underweight subjects. Addictions often co-occur. It was suggested that food addiction and exercise dependence (behavioral addiction), may co-occur in vulnerable athletes. This assumption was made since the eating behavior of athletes in certain situations is similar to the eating behavior seen in food addiction. In addition, exercise dependence may play a significant role in individuals’ eating related pathologies, and thus possibly also in food addiction. Athletes may be an interesting population to examine the co-occurrence of food and exercise addictions, as athletes represent a group that is potentially at-risk for both, eating problems and exercise dependence. Perfectionism is a construct that has been implicated in both, exercise dependence and eating disorders. Current study explores potential relationships among the two addictive disorders food addiction and exercise dependence—with perfectionism being the common thread between the two. A total of 1022 German speaking amateur athletes completed an online questionnaire consisting of the questionnaires Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0, Questionnaire to diagnose exercise-dependence in endurance sports and Multidimensional inventory of perfectionism in sport. A mediator effect of exercise dependence on the relationship between perfectionism and food addiction was found. Approximately 4 % (positive)/6 % (negative) of the variance in food addiction were accounted for by the mediator. The appearance of food addiction in normal/underweight individuals may partially be explained by sports-related reasons, e.g. exercise dependence and perfectionism. |
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