title: Psychological correlates to dysfunctional eating patterns among morbidly obese patients accepted for bariatric surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationships between dysfunctional eating patterns, personality, anxiety and depression in morbidly obese patients accepted for bariatric surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study used cross-sectional data collected by running a randomized controlled trial (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01403558).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 102 patients (69 women, 33 men) with a mean (SD) age of 42.6 (9.8) years and a mean BMI of 43.5 (4.4) kg/m(2) participated.
  
  
  METHODS
  Measurements included the NEO-PI-R (personality: neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness), the TFEQ-R-21 (dysfunctional eating: emotional eating (EE), uncontrolled eating (UE) and cognitive restraint of eating (CR)) and the HADS (anxiety and depression).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The personality traits neuroticism and conscientiousness were more strongly correlated with dysfunctional eating than anxiety and depression. These differences were most pronounced for emotional and cognitive restraint of eating. Emotional eating occurred more often in female than in male patients, a finding that was partially mediated by neuroticism but not by anxiety and depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Personality traits may be important to address in the clinical management of morbidly obese patients seeking bariatric surgery as neuroticism is particularly salient in female patients displaying an emotional eating behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Morbid Obesity Centre, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
authors.forename: Hege
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gade
authors.forename: Jan Harald
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Rosenvinge
authors.forename: Jøran
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hjelmesæth
authors.forename: Oddgeir
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Friborg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications*; D004644:Emotions; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000075384:Neuroticism; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D010551:Personality; D012737:Sex Factors; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires