[Psychological studies on adipositas].
The obesity belongs to the diseases with a great socio-medical importance. 75 patients with obesity were examined by means of the psychopathological short-time method issued by Hennig and Mehl, which was developed from Kincannon's mini-mult. Here in 30 obese patients (ca. 40%) increased values in at least one clinical scale appeared, which may be estimated as a reference to a neurotic mode of behaviour. Thus, neurotic modes of behaviour seem to appear more frequently in patients with obesity than in the average population (10%), however, more infrequently than in essential hypertonics (70%). Neurotic (Broca index + 30 kg) and non-neurotic (Broca index + 29 kg) patients with obesity had on an average the same overweight.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests
Psychologische Untersuchungen zur Adipositas.