Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 682-689

  Terracciano, Antonio ^a   Sutin, Angelina R ^a   McCrae, Robert R ^a   Deiana, Barbara ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a   Schlessinger, David ^a   Uda, Manuela ^b   Costa Jr , Paul T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

BMI; Central adiposity; Five Factor Model; Obesity; Personality; Waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIC; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OBESITY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERWEIGHT; WEIGHT CONTROL; ADDICTION; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINNESS;

EID: 68849098618     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181a2925b     Document Type: Article

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