1st Edition
Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise
1. Sports and Exercise for Healthy Living
2. Passion: Definitions and Conceptualization
3. Passion in Athletes and Leisure Exercisers
4. Runner’s High: A Path from Healthy to Dysfunctional Exercise?
5. Behavioral Addictions: Overview and Classifications
6. Uncovering Exercise Addiction: A Historical Perspective
7. Commitment Versus Addiction in Sports and Exercise
8. Psychological Manifestations of Exercise Deprivation
9. Exercise Addiction: Definition and Conceptualization
10. Primary and Secondary Forms of Exercise Dependence
11. Psychophysiological Models for Exercise Addiction
12. Psychometric Assessment of Exercise Addiction
13. Undiagnosed but Real Cases of Exercise Addiction
14. Is Exercise Addiction a Symptom or a Disorder?
15. Treatment of Exercise Addiction
16. Untangling Passion from Exercise Addiction: Shaping the Knowledge
17. Novel Conceptualization of Passion and Addiction is Sport and Exercise
Biography
Attila Szabo, PhD, DSc, is Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Psychology at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education at Concordia University (BSc in Psycholoy and MSc in Biology) and University of Montreal (PhD in 'Sciences de l'activité physique'), in Montreal, Canada. He served the sport science teaching and research teams at Nottingham Trent University, first as Senior Lecturer then as Reader for nearly nine years. His research interest is in behavioral addictions and placebo effects in sports and exercise.
Zsolt Demetrovics, PhD, DSc, is Clinical Psychologist and Cultural Anthropologist. Until 2021, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and Director of the Institute of Psychology, as well as Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology & Addiction at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Currently, Zsolt is Chair of Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming at the University of Gibraltar. He is former president of the Hungarian Association on Addictions and funding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. Furthermore, Zsolt is the president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions. He is board member of the International Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Abuse (ICASA), and the European Association of Substance Abuse Research (EASAR).
"Szabo and Demetrovics have written a very clever book that clears up some conceptual ambiguities and methodological weaknesses in exercise addiction research. Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the subject, whether as a researcher, coach or athlete."
Dr. Robert Gugutzer, Professor for social sciences of sports, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
