Exercise Addiction in Older Adults: Health Preservation or Fear of Death?

This study found that individuals with exercise addiction had lower BMI, a lower proportion of women and higher education levels. Additionally, while positive relationships were observed between exercise addiction and both health-protective behaviours and death anxiety, a negative relationship was found with health anxiety. Correlation and regression analyses indicated that BMI and higher education level serve as protective factors against exercise addiction, whereas health-protective behaviours and death anxiety function as risk factors.