Degree of body weight in obesity and Rorschach personality aspects of mental distress
| Autor: | Anna Maria Carlsson, Stephan Rössner, Kristina Elfhag |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Personality Disorders Severity of Illness Index Body Mass Index Mental distress medicine Prevalence Personality Humans Obesity Psychiatry media_common Aged Depression Body Weight Beck Depression Inventory Middle Aged Rorschach Test Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Distress Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology Body mass index Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Eating and weight disorders : EWD. 9(1) |
| ISSN: | 1124-4909 |
| Popis: | Objective: To study the relationship between degree of obesity and personality measures of mental distress. Method: The Rorschach method (Comprehensive System) and the Beck Depression Inventory. General descriptors were also included. Participants were 120 obese patients with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 41 (±SD 6) kg/m2. Results: Depression, stress or psychopathology such as distortions in perception and cognitions were not related to the degree of obesity. Body concern and body-related anxiety (An+Xy) were more common in relatively lower degrees of obesity. According to general descriptors heavier patients had lower educational and socio-economic level, and more bodily pain problems. Discussion: Depression was not related to body weight, in spite of findings of more depression in obesity compared to normal weights. Other factors than severity of obesity would account for the mental distress in obese patients. The differences in body concern and anxiety in varying degrees of obesity could be related to the social and educational context, where attitudes toward obesity differ. Less Rorschach signs of body concern in the morbidly obese contrasted with more self-reported bodily pain problems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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