Fitness Addiction In Women: The Conceptualization Of The Phenomenon And Foundation Of Psychodiagnostic Tool

M. Savina V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Abstract

The paper analyzes the basic scientific views on its pathogenesis and clinical features of the fitness addiction phenomenon. Presented by the author’s method of detection of disorders associated with enthusiasm for sports (fitness) for non-professionals (SPORT-UDIT), the results of testing. Received results indicated by the reliability and accuracy of the new psycho-diagnostic tool in determining the severity of the clinical manifestations of the studied pathological phenomenon. The overwhelming majority of women have demonstrated addictive fascination entity expressed according to the level in the range of behavioral and / or physiological addiction. The conclusion about the existence fitness addiction as a pathological phenomenon, which is conceptualized as a manifestation of a physiological type of addictive behavior.

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