REBELO, Ana    LEAL, Isabel. Factores de personalidade e comportamento alimentar em mulheres portuguesas com obesidade mórbida: Estudo exploratório. []. , 25, 3, pp.467-477. ISSN 0870-8231.

The aim of this study is to correlate the Personality factors and Eating Behaviour in women diagnosed with Morbid Obesity. The 48 patients are candidates to Bariatric Surgery, or that have made it in a near past. The instruments used along this investigation were: Sample Characterization Questionnaire, The Personality Inventory NEO Revised and the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ). The results showed the extremely significant statistical value in the dimensions Neuroticism and Openness, and in the facets Impulsiveness, Assertiveness, Fantasy, Feelings, Ideas, Values, Altruism, Competence and Deliberation; and in the Restrained Eating and Emotional Eating dimen-sions. We registered the presence of inadequate feelings with maladaptative coping responses with a low frustration tolerance; characteristics of dominance in the social relations; creativity with the elaboration of fantasies and the presence of situational emotional responses; altruistic behaviour, self-discipline and planning; with an emotional ingestion associated to characteristics of restrained eating. We highlight the importance of psychotherapy during illness process.

: Morbid obesity; personality factors; eating behaviour; obesity surgery.

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