Abstract
Objectives
To determine the personality types of women in treatment for obesity and the associations among their personality characteristics, eating behaviour and suicide risk. Subjects: Sixty women in pharmacological treatment for obesity (clinical group: CG) and 60 women post-bariatric gastric bypass surgery (surgical group: SG) were evaluated.
Methods
This was an observational and transversal study conducted in a specialized outpatient unit. Personality types were evaluated through the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. A semi-structured questionnaire that investigated sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics was applied, along with the Binge Eating Scale (BES) and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS).
Results
Among the 16 possible personality types, the ISFJ (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) and ESFJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) types were more frequent. In the SG, 32% of the participants presented with the ISFJ type, and 18.3% presented with the ESFJ type. In the CG, 33% presented with the ISFJ type and 25% presented with the ESFJ type. There was a higher prevalence of binge eating behaviour in the CG (Cohen’s d: − 0.47; p < 0.0001) and a higher tendency to graze in the SG (p = 0.005). Participants with introverted attitudes showed a higher prevalence of severe binging (13.3% vs 3.3%, p = 0.07), suicidal thoughts throughout life (STTL) (69.5% vs 45.1%, p = 0.007), and recent suicidal thoughts (RSTs) (30.4% vs 11.7%, p = 0.01) in comparison to extraverted participants. BMI was associated with a higher chance of STTL (37.96 ± 6.41 kg/m2 with STTL vs 33.92 ± 4.68 kg/m2 without STTL; p = 0.01) in the CG compared to the SG. RSTs were associated with BMI in the SG (34.47 ± 3.86 kg/m2 with RSTs vs 30.61 ± 5.72 kg/m2 without RSTs; p = 0.01). In the multivariable analysis, personality type (ISFJ) was an independent predictor of STTL (OR: 3.6; CI 1.3–10.2; p = 0.01) and Suicidal Behaviour (SB) (OR: 9.7; CI 2.44–38.9; p = 0.001). Conversely, while BMI was an independent factor associated with binge eating, personality type was not.
Conclusions
Women who were in pharmacological treatment for obesity or were post-bariatric surgery present specific types of personality. Introversion was associated with a higher BMI and a higher risk of suicidal thoughts.
Level of evidence
Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
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Introduction
Obesity is a highly prevalent disease that is associated with physical and psychological comorbidities [1,2,3,4]. The World Health Organization defines as overweight as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25.0 kg/m2 and obesity as a BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2 s [5].
The treatment of obesity is based on lifestyle changes, with restriction of caloric intake, physical activity and behavioural changes, but such approaches often have limited results and are associated with weight regain. In addition to these strategies, pharmacological interventions and bariatric surgery can be employed [6, 7].
Women are considered more likely to have obesity; the prevalence of obesity is 40.4% in women compared to 35.0% in men. Additionally, women have a higher prevalence of severe obesity (BMI ≥ 40.0 kg/m2), and as they get older (between the ages of 40 and 64), obesity prevalence and health related risks increase [1]. Furthermore, obese women present with a lower quality of life, more severe health problems, and chronic diseases, even though obese men have a higher mortality rate. The female population with obesity also suffers greater psychosocial and cultural pressures, which have negative effects on their self-esteem. [2, 3].
There is no agreement in the academic community on the association between personality and obesity. While some clinical studies do not endorse a specific type of personality in the development of obesity [8, 9], others demonstrate strong relations between personality types and obesity [10, 11]. Nevertheless, studies on psychological traits in obese populations can be highly relevant for the clinical management of obese people [12, 13].
The personality typology of the participants was evaluated through the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is an inventory that evaluates personality based on the theory of psychological types developed by Carl Gustav Jung. The inventory assesses typology through the combination of 2 attitudes, Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I), and 6 preferences: Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N), Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F), and Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P) [14].
The use of the MBTI is well established in the organizational context [15,16,17,18]; however, in the clinical context, it is still scarce [19, 20], even more so in the obese population subjected to weight loss interventions [21, 22].
Eating behaviour is a series of habits, choices, perceptions, and emotional representations involved while eating. Although obesity is not considered an eating disorder, binge eating disorder (BED) is often found in the obese population [12].
A comparative study on the eating behaviours of persons with BED and persons without BED showed that binge eating episodes in individuals with BED are more significantly related to negative urgency (acting rashly when distressed) or positive urgency (acting impulsively when experiencing positive emotions) compared to binge eating episodes in people without BED [23]. Another study also showed that negative mood, or mood deterioration, can be a crucial antecedent to binge eating episodes for people with BED [24].
In a study comparing how adverse childhood experiences influence people with or without obesity, Silva and Maia [25] stated that the obese population does not experience more adverse experiences, but obese people might show fewer coping strategies and sometimes demonstrate eating as a coping strategy. This understanding is supported by Silva [26], who stated that one in every four obese people describes eating as a coping strategy.
The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study demonstrated that even though bariatric surgery might reduce mortality rates, it could bring adverse effects to the mental health of patients. Suicidal risk and self-aggression rates were more elevated in the surgical group in comparison to the clinical group, indicating the necessity of a psychiatric and psychological evaluation before bariatric surgery and mental health follow-up after [27].
Regarding patients’ Suicidal Thoughts Throughout Life (STTL), Musselman et al. [28] showed that patients still had suicidal thoughts independent of their weight loss even 6 months after their surgery. A longitudinal study of 2458 post-bariatric surgery patients demonstrated that one-fourth of the subjects reported a presurgery history of suicidal thoughts or behaviour. The prevalence of self-harm/suicidal ideation was 5.3% presurgery, which decreased to 3.8% at 1 year after surgery and then increased again to 6.6% after 5 years [29].
The goals of the current study were to examine the following: what is the most prevalent personality typology in the women of the study? Is there a difference in the typology of the surgical group and the clinical group? What are the differences in the eating behaviour between these groups of women? What are the differences between STTL, RST and SB rates in the CG and SG? Is there an association among typology, eating behaviour and suicide risk in the women studied?
Subjects and methods
Participants
Women 18–65 years old enrolled in obesity treatment in an endocrine outpatient unit of a general hospital in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, were recruited. This study comprised a surgical group, which included women who underwent bariatric surgery (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) at least 2 years previously,Footnote 1 and a clinical group, which included women in clinical pharmacological treatment (topiramate, sertraline and sibutramine) for obesity. The hospital’s Research Ethics Committee approved this study. The study occurred between November 2016 and June 2018.
Procedures
The participants were recruited from the waiting rooms in the hospital. Only women showed interest in participating in the study. Eligible participants signed informed consent documents. They were asked to answer an individual semi-structured interview performed by a psychotherapist. The interviews occurred on the same day as the medical appointments. The questions were about sociodemographic characteristics, self-declared eating behaviours, and habits in general. The participants’ typology was evaluated by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Eating behaviour was evaluated by the Binge Eating Scale (BES). Suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviour were evaluated by the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS). After the interview, the participants were referred to psychotherapeutic groups if they showed any interest. No participant was compensated for their participation in the study.
Instruments
Myers–Briggs type indicator (MBTI)
The MBTI was used for typological evaluation of the participants. The indicator consists of 93 questions with dichotomous answers. Unlike the 8 classical combinations of Jung’s typology [30], the MBTI results in 16 possible combinations [31].
Self-reported eating behaviour
The self-reported eating behaviour was evaluated by asking the participants the following questions: Do you consider your eating behaviour as regular or irregular? In which of these profiles of eating would you fit into: night eater, grazer,Footnote 2 or binge eater? Do you hide while eating? Which of these factors might influence your choice for consuming high calorie foods: emotional factors, hunger, no relation, or other reasons? The participants’ answers were recorded.
Binge Eating Scale (BES)
The Binge Eating Scale was used to evaluate the frequency and intensity of binge eating episodes among the participants. This scale consists of a list of 16 items of 3 or 4 affirmatives from which the participant selects the response that best characterizes him or her. Each affirmative corresponds to a point system of 0–3. The final score is the sum of the points in each item. A score lower than 17 points characterizes non-binging behaviour. A score ranging from 18 to 26 points characterizes moderate binging. A score of 27 points or higher marks severe binging behaviour [33].
Columbia-suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS)
The C-SSRS is a questionnaire to assess suicidal ideation and behaviour [34]. The subjects’ scores were divided into three categories: suicidal thoughts throughout life (STTL), recent suicidal thoughts (RST) and suicidal behaviour (SB).
Statistical analysis
The data were registered in an elaborate electronic data research protocol for Microsoft Office Excel® and exported for statistical review using R software [35].
The central tendency measures considered in the statistical analysis were the mean and the standard deviation (SD) for the continuous quantitative variables with normal distributions. Categorical variables were expressed as a percentage of their frequency. The estimation of the difference between two means was performed by the parametric Student’s t test. The estimation of the difference between the categorical variables was performed by Pearson’s Chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact tests [36].
The adherence test, which follows a Chi-square distribution to evaluate the most frequent typological profiles obtained through the MBTI, was performed [37]. For the associations, the sample was calculated considering a type I error of 5%, a magnitude of effect of 5%, and statistical tests were applied with an estimated minimum test power of 95%. The effect sizes were measured by the calculation of Cohen’s d and odds ratios [38].
Results
Almost half of the women in the study were married (47%), and 42.5% had completed a high school education. The participants in the clinical group presented with a 14.78% higher mean BMI in comparison to the surgical group (36.67 ± 6.17 kg/m2 vs 31.25 ± 5.62 kg/m2, Cohen’s d: − 0.46; p < 0.0001) (Table 1). The mean time after bariatric surgery of the surgical group was 84.19 ± 41.89 months.
Amongst the 16 possible combinations of typological MBTI profiles, the participants of the study presented with only 13. The most frequent ones in both the surgical and clinical groups were ISFJ (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) and ESFJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging), showing a significance of p < 0.0001. However, when comparing the frequency of the ISFJ and ESFJ profiles in each of the groups, similar frequencies were present in both groups (p < 0.7). Additionally, the typological profile frequencies showed very little difference between the surgical and clinical groups, revealing a significance of p < 0.9, indicating no association (Table 2).
Most of the participants self-reported irregular eating behaviours (55.83%), and there was no association between the surgical and clinical groups (p = 0.7). The grazing profile was more prevalent in the SG (58.33%), and self-reported binge eating was more prevalent in the CG (56.66%); there was a significant difference between the groups (p = 0.005). Regarding the “hiding while eating” data, there was no significant difference between the SG and CG groups, yet 77.5% of the sample reported this behaviour. The most prevalent factors that influenced high caloric food intake were emotional factors in both groups, with a frequency of 56.66% for the clinical group and 43.33% for the surgical group (p = 0.002) (Table 3).
Regarding the Binge Eating Scale (BES), the mean score for the clinical group was 18.67 ± 10.50 points. On the other hand, the mean surgical group score was 10.23 ± 8.47 points. The results showed a higher prevalence of severe binging behaviour (16 participants) in the clinical group (Cohen’s d: − 0.47; p < 0.0001) (Table 4).
The association between the MBTI profiles and the BES scores showed different results in the clinical and surgical groups. Taking the most common typological profiles (ESFJ and ISFJ) into account, the clinical group showed little difference between the profiles (p = 0.4804) but showed an overall higher BES mean score in the ISFJ profile (18.6 ± 11.91 points). However, in the surgical group, there was a significant difference between the profiles (Cohen’s d: − 0.61; p < 0.04), with the ISFJ showing a higher mean score (12.89 ± 9.38 points) (Table 5).
The MBTI attitude (Extraversion and Introversion) that has a higher prevalence of severe binging was Introversion; 13.33% of the participants in the study were introverted and had severe binging behaviour. The percentage of participants with an extraverted attitude that have severe binging behaviour was 3.33% (Pearson’s Chi-squares test p = 0.07). It was estimated that the odds of a participant with severe binging having an introverted attitude and not an extraverted attitude was 3.7 times that of a participant with a non-binging profile (Table 6).
Most of the participants in the study showed STTL (59.2%), and 37.5% of them showed SB. In the SG, the participants who showed RSTs also had a higher BMI than the subjects who did not (34.47 ± 3.86 kg/m2 vs 30.61 ± 5.72 kg/m2; p = 0.01; Cohen’s d: − 0.705). Similarly, the subjects in the CG that presented with STTL also had a higher BMI than the subjects who did not (37.96 ± 6.41 kg/m2 vs 33.92 ± 4.68 kg/m2; p = 0.01; Cliff’s delta = − 0.415).
The ISFJ-profile subjects showed a higher SB rate (OD: 9.7394, CI 2.44–38.9, p = 0.001) and STTL rate (OD: 3.6, CI 1.3–10.2, p = 0.01) in comparison to ESFJ-profile subjects. In the multivariable analysis, personality type (ISFJ) was an independent predictor of STTL (OR: 3.6; CI 1.3–10.2; p = 0.01) and SB (OR: 9.7; CI 2.44–38.9; p = 0.001).
Regarding MBTI attitudes (Extraversion and Introversion) and suicide risk, the introverted attitude showed a higher prevalence of both STTL (69.5% vs 45.1%, p = 0.007) and RST (30.4% vs 11.7%, p = 0.01) in comparison to the extroverted attitude.
Discussion
In this study, only female participants were enrolled in the research, and they were recruited from the same hospital. A both gender, with larger sample and a different location of recruitment study would benefit future work. However, these results suggest that the MBTI personality typology frequency and distributions are similar between the surgical and clinical groups of women in obesity treatment. The groups did differ in BMI and BES results.
It is expected that all MBTI profiles occur at the same frequency; however, we were surprised by a higher prevalence of only two typological profiles, ISFJ and ESFJ, in both groups, in the same way that Zitkus [21] had shown these profiles as the most common profiles in an obese population.
Though these typological profiles seem to be similar, only differing the first letter (I or E) they lead to different dynamic functioning. According to Myers [14], in the ISFJ, the dominant process is Sensing, and the auxiliary process is Feeling. In the ESFJ, the dominant process is Feeling, and the auxiliary process is Sensing. In both typological profiles, there is a predominance of Sensing and Feeling functions, which according to Jung [30], refer to a tendency to adapt to the world by attributing value to things and perceiving things, respectively. It seems likely that these profiles are common in this study population because sensing and feeling dynamically influence eating behaviour, and eating has other meanings besides just meeting physiological needs.
Even though some participants’ BES scores were elevated, showing severe binging, we cannot confirm diagnoses of binge eating disorder in these participants because this was a brief study involving only a single appointment, and as Freitas et al. [39] has stated, the BED diagnosis should be confirmed on a clinical level.
Regarding the association between personality typology and eating behaviour, it was noted that there was an important correlation between them. It is not possible to state that the introverted personality is an indicator of binge eating in the sample, but the introverted participants showed a higher prevalence of severe binging behaviour compared to the extroverted participants. In relation to the ISFJ/ESFJ profiles and BES results, the participants in the clinical group showed an overall higher mean BES score in relation to the surgical group. The ISFJ profile showed a higher mean BES score in both groups.
However, the results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between eating behaviour after bariatric surgery. As the data suggest, there seemed to be a change in eating behaviour after bariatric surgery since people in the clinical group presented with both higher BES scores and more frequent self-reported binge eating behaviour. In this group, there was also a higher prevalence of eating because of an emotional factor, confirming what has been said previously by the authors [23,24,25,26]. On the other hand, the surgical group had lower BES scores and self-reported a higher frequency of the grazing eating behaviour. The grazing behaviour in the bariatric population was also reported by Conceição et al. [32].
Even though suicidal ideation and behaviour were not evaluated in a prospective way, the results of this study showed an alarming mental health reality amongst an obesity treatment population, as more than 50% of the subjects showed STTL. Additionally, the results corroborate those of Nevious et al. [27], who showed a higher frequency of RST in the SG.
Conclusions
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The association between personality, eating behaviour and suicide risk should be taken into account during the treatment of obesity to find better therapeutic strategies that consider the emotional dynamics, the typological functioning of the individual and the way each person deals with food in the processes of losing weight and maintaining weight loss.
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Bariatric surgery seemed to change eating behaviours and patients in the surgical group presented better BMI and BES results compared to the clinical group. However, it was evident in the study that bariatric surgery did not seem to change a person’s personality.
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Additionally, it was noted that the introverted attitude showed more severe binging and a greater STTL and RST.
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BMI was not independently associated with suicidal ideation and behaviour, but was associated with binge eating behaviour.
Limitations
It is perceivable that there is a need for complementary work studying personality, obesity and eating behaviour associations, considering wider samples of both genders and different ages, in order to systematize new treatment proposals.
What is already known on this subject?
Not a lot has been said about the association of personality typology according to MBTI, obesity and suicide. Ziktus’ [21] study shows association between weight and MBTI types, and that introverted people present more weight.
What does this study add?
This study brings new reflections about treatment for obesity and bariatric surgery. Through the study of personality types, it is possible to identify the risk of patients that might experience suicidal thoughts or action, and binge eating before or after undergoing the bariatric surgery.
Notes
This timeframe was chosen looking for participants with more stable weight and measurements.
“Repetitive eating (more than twice) of small/modest amounts of food in an unplanned manner, with what we characterize as compulsive and noncompulsive subtypes” [32, p 973].
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An MBTI distributor in Brazil (Fellipelli) granted the inventories utilized in the study. The study was funded by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), a Brazilian government institution that aims to invest in academical research.
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de Figueiredo, M.d., Nasser, S.N., Franco, C.B. et al. Personality type, eating behaviour and suicide risk in women in treatment for obesity. Eat Weight Disord 26, 547–554 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-020-00877-9
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