Main description:

* Presents a proposal for a new conceptualization of sports passion and sports addiction
* Addresses the methodological weaknesses of sports addiction research resulting from the insufficient separation of passion and addiction
* The chapters on measuring exercise addiction and presentations of undiagnosed exercise addiction make it relevant for clinicians, researchers and lay exercisers.

Contents:

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