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Comparison of Attachment Styles in Subjects with and Without Obesity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

S.H. Nohesara ,
H. Mohammad Sadeghi ,
M. Ahmadzad Asl ,
A. Ghanbari-Jolfayi  and
M. Mohammad Sadeghi
S.H. Nohesara
Affiliation:
Psychiatry department, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
H. Mohammad Sadeghi
Affiliation:
Psychiatry department, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
M. Ahmadzad Asl
Affiliation:
School of behavioral sciences and mental health, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
A. Ghanbari-Jolfayi
Affiliation:
Psychiatry department, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
M. Mohammad Sadeghi
Affiliation:
Nutrition department, Tehran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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Aim

To assess the attachment styles in obese patients and to compare it with normal weight individuals.

Methods

in a cross-sectional study, 159 patients with obesity referred to obesity clinics, and 183 subjects without obesity were enrolled to complete Hazan and Shaver’s measure of adult attachment, and provided reports regarding height, weight and socio-demographic status.

Results

Prevalence rates for secure, avoidant and preoccupied attachment in obese patients were 66%, 17% and 15%, respectively. Attachment styles showed no significant difference in obese and non-obese individuals (P>0.05). There were significantly lower medical co-morbidities in subjects with secure attachments (P<0.05). In regression models the determinants of higher body mass index were increased age, undergraduate education level, using medications and being housewife as the job.

Conclusions

The findings were supportive of the studies revealed the association of insecure attachment styles and psychosomatic disorders.

Type
Article: 1252
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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