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ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2022

Personality, weight loss and obesity-related well-being post-bariatric surgery.

Marie Louise Caltabiano

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Article in Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  2. Relations between trajectories of weight loss and changes in psychological health over a period of 2 years following bariatric metabolic surgery.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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Marie Louise CaltabianoPsychology, College of Healthcare Sciences, Division of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, McGregor Road, Smithfield, Cairns, Qld, 4878, Australia. marie.caltabiano@jcu.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-3143
Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine · AU

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6 · The paper itself

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purposeThe aim of the study was to examine the associations between personality, weight loss and obesity-related well-being post-bariatric surgery. It was hypothesised that persons who had undergone bariatric surgery who exhibit Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Intellect/Imagination will have greater obesity-related well-being; whereas, those low on Emotional stability will have poorer obesity well-being.

methodThe cross-sectional sample comprised 127 females who had received bariatric surgery. The average age of participants was 45 years. Quality of life was measured using the Obesity-Related Well-Being scale (ORWELL 97). Personality was assessed with the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) 50-item measure of the Five-Factor Model.

resultsThe mean BMI for the sample was 34.13 (SD = 7.8). Females with a larger BMI who had undergone bariatric surgery had lower obesity-related well-being. Conscientiousness was negatively associated with BMI. Separate Hierarchical regression analyses found that Emotional stability (Beta =  - .43,  - .47,  - .36) and Agreeableness (Beta = .27, .29, .25) predicted overall well-being, symptom occurrence and subjective relevance of distress, respectively. BMI predicted occurrence of symptoms (Beta = .23).

conclusionsThe findings have implications for the development of personality-informed interventions for bariatric patients in enhancing well-being and weight-loss maintenance following surgery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III: Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies.

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Bariatric SurgeryQuality of LifeCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMiddle AgedObesityPersonalityWeight LossBariatric surgeryObesityPersonalityWell-being

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