Exercise Addiction Stability and Health Effects. A 6-Month Follow-up Postcompetition Study in Amateur Endurance
Javier Bueno-Antequera1, Miguel A Ngel Oviedo-Caro, Alejandro Legaz-Arrese
1From the Physical Performance and Sports Research Center, Department of Sports and Computer Science, Section of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain (JB-A, MAO-C, FP-G, DM-I); Research Group in Development MovimientoHumano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain (JB-A, MAOC, AL-A, FP-G, RG-C, DM-I, CM-P); Department of Physiatry and Nursery, Section of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain (AL-A, RG-C, CM-P); Biomedical Research Networking Center on Frailty and Healthy Aging, Madrid, Spain (DM-I).
Objective:
To study the longitudinal stability of exercise addiction and its health effects in apparently healthy amateur endurance cyclists from pre- to 6-month post-competition.
Methods:
In total, 330 (30 women) adult cyclists were divided into 4 groups based on scores on the Exercise Addiction Inventory at both periods: nonrisk (n=262, 79.1%), transient (n=35, 10.6%), emerging (n=14, 4.2%) and persistent (n=20, 6.1%).
Results:
The prevalence of high-risk exercise addiction was reduced postcompetition (16.7% vs 10.3%, P = 0.017). Of the cyclists with a high precompetition risk of exercise addiction, 63.6% (35/55) had a transient addiction associated with favorable effects on mental quality of life (effect size [ES]=0.52, 95% confidence interval: [0.20, 0.86]) and sleep quality (ES=-0.50 [-0.89, -0.12]) and avoided the worsening of depression symptom severity compared to the remaining groups (ES range=0.51-0.65). The 5.1% (14/275) of cyclists with a precompetition low risk of exercise addiction presented emerging exercise addiction that was associated with a worsened mental quality of life compared to the remaining groups (ES ranged 0.59-0.91), sleep quality compared to the nonrisk (ES=-0.56 [-0.02, -1.10]) and transient (ES=-0.72 [-1.36, -0.08]) groups and anxiety symptom severity compared to the persistent group (ES=0.51 [1.20,-0.19]).
Conclusions:
Exercise addiction had a marked transitory component at 6-month postcompetition with associated health benefits in amateur endurance cyclists.
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