Dépendance à l'exercice physique : un essai d'approche intégrative

The topic of the regular practice of a physical exercise among certain individuals and under some conditions susceptible of involving negative effects at psychological as well as physiological levels, then some authors developed the concept of exercise dependence. This doctoral dissertation aims at better understanding exercise dependence by proposing an integrative approach of exercise dependence. Thus we articulated the socio-cognitive variables, the dimensions of the personality and exercise behaviour. A research programme in two steps and in which more than 1018 people were involved was conducted. In a first time the various measuring instruments were validated: the exercise dependence scale translated into French has satisfactory psychometric qualities. In a second time, we wanted to know what the share of the dimensions of the personality and the socio-cognitive variables in the explanation of exercise dependence was.