THE RELATION BETWEEN ORAL, MASOCHIST AND RIGID CHARACTERS TRACES WITH OVERWEIGHT AND THE IMPACT ON THE WEIGHT LOSS PROCESS

Abstract

Efcient interventionist proposals for overweight and obesity depend on how the person feels, thinks, and acts. This is possible through the body analysis, a technique that, based on the structural forms of the body, allows the determination of individually percentages of characters traces (schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochist and rigid). The objective of this study was to verify the relation between overweight or obesity and characters traces. This is an observational, transverse, retrospective study, described with secondary data obtained from the records of a training school in body analysis between 2018 and 2022. A total of 838 people participated in this study, being excluded those participants who did not lled out their height and weight. The Map of Characters instrument was used to identify the prole of the body identication; the sociodemographic prole and habits were evaluated by an original questionnaire, and the quality-of-life contents, using the WHOQOL-BREF. Individual BMI was calculated and three groups were determined: eutrophic ((18,5 ≥ IMC < 25); overweight (25 ≥ BMI < 30) and obese (BMI ≥ 30.0). With 95% condence intervals, the variables were described from frequency distributions, media, and standard deviation in the univariate analysis. In the bivariate analysis, the Chi-square and the Kruskall-Wallis test were used. The variables that, at this stage, presented a descriptive level (p-value) up to 0.20 were selected for the multiple analysis, which used the Multinomial Logistic Regression model and estimated the adjusted odds ratios (OR) with respective (OR). The Deviance test and Pseudo-R 2 of Nagelkerke's evaluated the quality of the setting. The IBM SPSS software version 23.0 was used in all analyses. It was noticed an isolated and combined increase in the percentage of Oral and Masochist traces in relation to the overweight and obese groups, while the Schizoid, Psychopathic and Rigid traces had their percentages decreased. The chances of overweight and obesity were signicantly higher in individuals with below average quality of life and a higher percentage of emotional dependence.