Personality Characteristics And Obesity

• Auteurs principaux: Asthana Sunita (Auteur), Gupta V.M (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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• Notes: 0970-0218; 1998-3581
• Keywords: Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 21-26 (1999)

Research question: Whether certain personality characteristics of obese women make them prone towards psychological problem? Objective: To assess certain personality characteristics of obese women. Study design: Cross-sectional community based study. Setting: Affluent localities of Varanasi city. Participants: Women above 15 years of age. Statistical Analysis: Mean, S.D and ‘t†test. Results: On 16 PF scale obese women were found more reserved, critical, depressed, worried and troubled than the non-obese women. Obese also manifested subsequently less felling of contentment, happiness satisfaction with life experiences, low sense of achievement on PGI Well-Being. Obese women showed more distress and apprehension over their negative evaluation and distressed with day to day Conclusion: Obese women evidenced significantly more neurotic than non- obese women.