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Weight preoccupation, personality, and depression in university students: An interactionist perspective
Author(s) -
OatesJohnson Tina,
DeCourville Nancy
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199909)55:9<1157::aid-jclp12>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , beck depression inventory , mood , personality , multilevel model , clinical psychology , personality assessment inventory , autonomy , depressed mood , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , psychiatry , social psychology , anxiety , machine learning , computer science , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Abstract This cross‐sectional study investigated whether Beck's (1983, 1987) cognitive personality traits of sociotropy and autonomy interacted with weight preoccupation in their contribution to depressed mood in women and men. Two hundred and fifty‐one undergraduates were administered the revised Sociotropy‐Autonomy Scale (SAS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI), and the Restraint Scale (RS). Three separate hierarchical multiple regression analyses, with the BDI as the dependent variable, revealed a specific congruent interaction between weight preoccupation and personality. Specifically, weight‐preoccupied women and men experienced depressed mood to the extent that they were characterized as more highly sociotropic. Further examination of weight preoccupation among men, in the direction of weight or muscle gain, revealed that the highest levels of depressed mood were experienced by highly sociotropic men who wanted to gain weight and muscle mass. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 1157–1166, 1999.