Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) Test

For people who feel that training is becoming difficult to regulate, this exercise addiction test helps distinguish committed exercise from dependence-related patterns. Rather than treating enthusiasm or high commitment as problems by themselves, the questionnaire focuses on whether dedication remains flexible when circumstances change. The Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) Test turns that concern into a structured self-report result.

What This Assessment Measures

The items examine whether exercise is unusually central, changes mood, keeps expanding, causes distress when missed, creates conflict, or resists reduction. Together, these themes mean the result estimates likelihood of exercise dependence and risk of a pathological attachment to training. It is intended for people reflecting on their own habits.

This exercise dependence questionnaire organises the result around six criteria:

• Salience shows whether exercise dominates life priorities.
• Mood modification reflects training used to change feelings.
• Tolerance tracks increasing exercise volume.
• Withdrawal symptoms describe low mood after missed exercise.
• Conflict identifies strain in close relationships.
• Relapse shows returning to old levels after cutting back.

The single displayed scale is the Exercise Addiction Scale (0-30). Results are Low to moderate risk (0-23) or Very high risk (24-30), describing risk rather than fitness or discipline.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Responses use five-point agreement choices from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree; two displayed items use Unsure in the middle position. The six responses are presented as one total, not separate criterion scores. Interpretation follows the supplied risk bands, and no single answer is decisive.

The structure is conceptually consistent with the Exercise Addiction Inventory and its six behavioral-addiction components. The original screening study by Terry, Szabo, and Griffiths described the EAI as a screening tool, while a later re-evaluation by Griffiths and colleagues examined it across five countries. This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument, not an adaptation of the published studies. The evidence therefore supports the framework used by this exercise addiction screening tool, but does not establish identical norms or clinical properties for every online presentation.

Interpret the outcome as an indication of how closely the patterns fit your current experience. Self-report is affected by mood, memory, honesty, and unusual training demands, so the result needs context rather than automatic conclusions.