ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

Does Type of Behavior Associate with Visceral Obesity in Adults?

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Personality/Emotion

  • Wojciech Gruszka
    Health Promotion and Obesity Management Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical Faculty in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice
  • Wojciech Gruszka
    Pathophysiology Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical Faculty in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice
  • Katarzyna Wyskida
    Health Promotion and Obesity Management Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical Faculty in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice
  • Mateusz Glinianowicz
    Department of Psychology, Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
  • Monika Bąk-Sosnowska
    Department of Psychology, Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
  • Magdalena Olszanecka-Glinianowicz
    Health Promotion and Obesity Management Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical Faculty in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice

Abstract

It seems that some personality features, like type of behavior may promote development of visceral obesity and in consequence to numerous disorders related to obesity. In the study performed among 452 adult women and 292 adult men we analyzed an association between type of behavior and prevalence of visceral obesity.

Personality

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