SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2013
Association of personality with the development and persistence of obesity: a meta-analysis based on individual-participant data.
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98 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 210 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Five-factor model personality traits and grip strength: Meta-analysis of seven studies.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2022Pooled it
- Successful weight loss maintenance: A systematic review of weight control registries.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Are Personality Characteristics as Measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) Associated with Obesity Treatment Outcomes? A Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2018Pooled it
- Questionnaire and behavioral task measures of impulsivity are differentially associated with body mass index: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
- Personality and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: Data From a Longitudinal Sample and Meta-Analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2016Pooled it
- Personality and smoking: individual-participant meta-analysis of nine cohort studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES.Depression and anxiety · 2015Pooled it
- Personality and alcohol consumption: Pooled analysis of 72,949 adults from eight cohort studies.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Pooled it
- Psychological antecedents of excess gestational weight gain: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015Pooled it
- Association of metabolically healthy obesity with depressive symptoms: pooled analysis of eight studies.Molecular psychiatry · 2014Pooled it
- Is personality associated with cancer incidence and mortality? An individual-participant meta-analysis of 2156 incident cancer cases among 42,843 men and women.British journal of cancer · 2014Pooled it
- Personality and all-cause mortality: individual-participant meta-analysis of 3,947 deaths in 76,150 adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2013Pooled it
- Genetic and environmental contributions to the associations between midlife personality and late-life metabolic health.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Personality Traits and Psychological Well-Being in Childhood Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study Following the Five-Factor Model.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Personality, eating behaviour, and body weight: results from the population study of women in Gothenburg 2016/17.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- The association of Conscientiousness and Neuroticism on BMI and health behaviours: exploring the impact of Healthy Neuroticism.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Personality traits influence food cravings in pregnant women.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Risk Factors for Overweight and Obesity in Later School-Aged Children: Focus on Lifestyle Behaviours and Psychosocial Characteristics.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A bottom-up approach dramatically increases the predictability of body mass from personality traits.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Personality is thought to affect obesity risk but before such information can be incorporated into prevention and intervention plans, robust and converging evidence concerning the most relevant personality traits is needed. We performed a meta-analysis based on individual-participant data from nine cohort studies to examine whether broad-level personality traits predict the development and persistence of obesity (n = 78,931 men and women; mean age 50 years). Personality was assessed using inventories of the Five-Factor Model (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience). High conscientiousness - reflecting high self-control, orderliness and adherence to social norms - was associated with lower obesity risk across studies (pooled odds ratio [OR] = 0.84; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.80-0.88 per 1 standard deviation increment in conscientiousness). Over a mean follow-up of 5.4 years, conscientiousness predicted lower obesity risk in initially non-obese individuals (OR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.85-0.92; n = 33,981) and was associated with greater likelihood of reversion to non-obese among initially obese individuals (OR = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.01-1.14; n = 9,657). Other personality traits were not associated with obesity in the pooled analysis, and there was substantial heterogeneity in the associations between studies. The findings indicate that conscientiousness may be the only broad-level personality trait of the Five-Factor Model that is consistently associated with obesity across populations.
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