Table 2 Descriptive statistics of exercise addiction inventory data from six samples in five countries, including age, gender, mean exercise addiction inventory score, and individual item analysis
From: A cross-cultural re-evaluation of the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) in five countries
Spain | UK | US | Denmark | Hungary | Hungary_2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | 266 | 294 | 1272 | 587 | 583 | 2,752 |
Women [N (%)] | 90 (33.8) | 137 (46.6) | 684 (53.7) | 293 (39.6) | 297 (50.7) | 1,556 (56.5) |
Age [years; mean (SD)] | 27.2 (10.61) | 25.5 (10.00) | 37.9 (9.44) | 28.4 (10.74) | 29.7 (11.62) | 31.5 (8.48) |
Exercise addiction score [mean (SD)] | 18.6 (4.07) | 16.3 (4.45) | 20.7 (3.58) | 17.6 (3.93) | 15.1 (4.72) | 17.7 (4.09) |
Cronbach’s α | 0.70 | 0.80 | 0.58 | 0.66 | 0.73 | 0.61 |
Items | ||||||
Exercise is the most important thing in my life | 3.23 (0.93) | 2.30 (1.00) | 2.72 (1.03) | 2.85 (0.99) | 3.00 (1.06) | 3.10 (1.02) |
Conflicts have arisen between me and my family and/or my partner about the amount of exercise I do | 2.23 (1.22) | 1.97 (1.10) | 2.99 (1.24) | 2.09 (1.15) | 1.55 (0.97) | 1.63 (1.17) |
I use exercise as a way of changing my mood | 3.75 (1.02) | 3.17 (1.11) | 3.88 (0.88) | 3.42 (1.11) | 3.07 (1.31) | 3.31 (1.17) |
Over time I have increased the amount of exercise I do in a day | 3.56 (1.08) | 3.18 (1.05) | 4.11 (0.81) | 3.59 (1.01) | 2.52 (1.31) | 3.18 (1.31) |
If I have to miss an exercise session I feel moody and irritable | 2.75 (1.11) | 2.52 (1.06) | 3.51 (0.99) | 2.73 (1.16) | 2.19 (1.18) | 2.98 (1.24) |
If I cut down the amount of exercise I do, and then start again, I always end up exercising as often as I did before | 3.03 (1.03) | 3.18 (0.99) | 3.60 (0.88) | 2.90 (1.04) | 2.73 (1.34) | 3.53 (1.23) |