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The influence of weight reduction and exercise regimes upon the personality profiles of overweight males
Author(s) -
Koeppl Peter M.,
Heller Joellen,
Bleecker Eugene R.,
Meyers Deborah A.,
Ooldberg Andrew P.,
Bleecker Maroit L.
Publication year - 1992
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(199207)48:4<463::aid-jclp2270480406>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , overweight , psychology , personality , weight loss , clinical psychology , aerobic exercise , conditioning , obesity , physical therapy , medicine , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
In the present study, the MMPI was used to detect personality changes in 53 overweight, yet otherwise healthy, males who were participating in either a weight reduction or an aerobic exercise conditioning program. Analysis of pre‐ and post‐intervention scores revealed that only the participants in the aerobic conditioning group demonstrated the predicted desirable psychological changes. More specifically, this group displayed significant clinically desirable changes on the Hs, P D and H EA scores. Similar to the weight loss participants, a demographically matched nonintervention comparison group showed none of these desirable changes and actually yielded a significant increase on the D scale. However, when compared to this “normal” group, both intervention programs showed statistically significant differences on at least two MMPI scales.