Type D personality and predictive factors of Body Mass Index in bariatric surgery candidates (eng)

Yağcı, İbrahim; Taşdelen, Yasin; Koç, Okay; Kıvrak, Yüksel

doi:10.5505/kpd.2021.45578

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“…This results in patients with this personality type being less able to cope with the symptoms of the disease and its consequences [ 22 , 24 ]. Potential mechanisms through which the type D personality [ 25 , 26 ] may have negatively impacted health include: health behaviors—studies showed that people with type D personality were less likely to exercise, follow a healthy diet, take medications as recommended, and regularly attend medical check-ups, compared to their counterparts with a non-type D personality [ 27 , 28 , 29 ]; increased emotional stress—type D personality has been associated with depression, anxiety, and other indicators of emotional stress in individuals with diseases and in the general population [ 24 , 30 ]; standard risk factors—some studies observed a link between type D personality and standard risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and above-normal body weight [ 31 , 32 ], while others did not [ 33 ]. …”

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Type D Personality and Health Behaviors in People Living with Obesity

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Domagalska

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Background: Considering that health behaviors and personality traits play an important role in the formation of health attitudes, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the relations that occur between type D personality and health behaviors in a group of obese patients. Methods: 443 adult patients with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2, who had been hospitalized in selected hospital facilities in the Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), participated in the study. Respondents completed three standardized questionnaires—the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale, version A (MHLC-A), the Inventory of Health Behaviors (IZZ), and the Type D Scale (DS-14). Results: Patients with type D personality were characterized by the least effective mental attitudes and preventive behaviors, and differed significantly from the other personality types (intermediate and non-type D). Type D personality increased the risk of initiating improper health behaviors by more than five times. Regarding the sense of health control, patients with type D personality had significantly lower scores for the Internal Dimension subscale (21.3 ± 3.1) and higher for the Powerful Others Dimension subscale (24.0 ± 2.6), compared to patients with intermediate and non-type D personality. Proper health behaviors correlated with an internal sense of health control; the strongest correlation, defined as a medium, was with Preventive Behaviors (R = 0.42; p < 0.0001). Conclusions: Type D personality was associated with poorer attitudes towards health. Among obese respondents with a type D personality, there was a significantly higher prevalence of those who believed that their health status was a consequence of chance events.

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“…standard risk factors—some studies observed a link between type D personality and standard risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and above-normal body weight [ 31 , 32 ], while others did not [ 33 ].…”

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confidence: 99%