A study of intelligence and personality in children with simple obesity.
The objective of this study was to investigate differences in measures of intelligence and personality between obese and normal-weight children. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale (IQ) for Children (revised) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were administered to 102 children with simple obesity and their controls in a case-controlled design. The mean age of the children was 9.8 years and they all attended primary school in Nanjing, PRC. It was found that children in the severe obesity category (> 50% overweight) had a significantly lower performance IQ score than the controls, and a significantly higher EPQ psychoticism score. These differences were not observed in children with milder degrees of obesity.
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Department of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents, Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, PRC.
D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014888:Wechsler Scales