Personality traits in overweight and obese women: Associations with BMI and eating behaviors

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-302

  Provencher, Véronique ^a   Bégin, Catherine ^b   Gagnon Girouard, Marie Pierre ^b   Tremblay, Angelo ^b   Boivin, Sonia ^c   Lemieux, Simone ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive dietary restraint; Disinhibition; Five factor model; Obesity; Psychological functioning; Susceptibility to hunger

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHORIA; EXTRAVERSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGER; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; NEUROSIS; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THREE FACTOR EATING QUESTIONNAIRE; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 44649132098     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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