Exercise addiction inventory and individual factor loadings using principal component analysis
| Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Agree | Strongly agree | Factor loading | Addiction component | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exercise is the most important thing in my life | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.754 | Salience |
| Conflicts have arisen between me and my family and/or my partner about the amount of exercise I do | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.610 | Conflict |
| I use exercise as a way of changing my mood (e.g. to get a buzz, to escape, etc.) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.800 | Mood modification |
| Over time I have increased the amount of exercise I do in a day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.742 | Tolerance |
| If I have to miss an exercise session I feel moody and irritable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.801 | Withdrawal |
| 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 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0.762 | Relapse |