Can automatic reactions mirror exercise dependence?
While physical activity (PA) has numerous health benefits, in rare cases it can become addictive and lead to adverse health effects. Automatic reactions to addiction-related cues are a hallmark of addiction, however, their association with exercise dependence (ED) remains unknown. This research exam...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. 1207 - 1234 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189263151&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189263151 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1612197X UXG jtl: International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology issn: 1612197X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 23 iid: 7 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 189263151 10.1080/1612197X.2024.2387698 ppf: 1207 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 891KB tig: atl: Can automatic reactions mirror exercise dependence? aug: au: Quossi, Anaïs Fessler, Layan Maltagliati, Silvio Gardner, Benjamin Miller, Matthew W. Sander, David Rebar, Amanda L. Szabo, Attila Cheval, Boris affil: Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab), Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Food and Human Behavior Lab, Faculty of Psychology, Unidistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland University Grenoble-Alpes, SENS, Grenoble, France Human and Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern, California, CA, USA Habit Application and Theory Group, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Center for Neuroscience, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Motivation of Health Behaviours Lab, Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia Faculty of Health and Sport Science, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Ecole Normale Supérieure Rennes, Bruz, France Laboratory VIPS2, University of Rennes, Rennes, France su: Exercise addiction Addictions Subconsciousness Psychological well-being Physical activity Cognitive bias Approach behavior Attentional bias sug: subj: Exercise addiction Addictions Subconsciousness Psychological well-being Physical activity Cognitive bias Approach behavior Attentional bias keyword: Approach-avoidance tendencies attentional bias automatic reactions exercise addiction exercise dependence Approach-avoidance tendencies attentional bias automatic reactions exercise addiction exercise dependence ab: While physical activity (PA) has numerous health benefits, in rare cases it can become addictive and lead to adverse health effects. Automatic reactions to addiction-related cues are a hallmark of addiction, however, their association with exercise dependence (ED) remains unknown. This research examined the links between ED and automatic reactions to PA-related cues in physically active individuals with low-to-moderate levels of ED through two studies. Study 1 (N = 65) used a dot-probe task with eye-tracking to assess the association between attentional bias toward PA and ED scores measured by the Exercise Dependence Scale-Revised. Study 2 (N = 125) used a manikin task and a single-category implicit association test to examine the association of approach-avoidance tendencies and implicit affective attitudes toward PA with ED scores. Results revealed ED scores were positively associated with behavioral indicators of attentional bias (i.e., reaction times), but not with eye-tracking indicators (i.e., first-gaze localization, gaze duration). Similarly, ED scores were unrelated to approach-avoidance tendencies or implicit affective attitudes toward PA. Therefore, our research provides limited evidence supporting the hypothesis that automatic reactions to PA may reflect a "signature" of ED. Our findings do not robustly support the link between automatic processes and ED, raising questions about whether the psychological mechanisms involved in ED might differ from those observed in other addictive behaviors where automatic processes are key. However, due to our sample's low-to-moderate levels of ED, definitive conclusions cannot be drawn. Further research with individuals exhibiting addiction-related dependence, personalized stimuli, and neurophysiological methods is needed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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