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 Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Cesarec-Marke Personality Schedule

 indicated that the weight change group had significantly higher order

 scores than the excess weight group. Aggressive nonconformance was

 lower in the weight change group (p < .05). No other significant

 differences were found. In the mental health variables they found that

 groups that gained more than 5 kilograms had higher psychopathology

 ratings than groups that gained less. This was measured by disability

 degree (p < .05), depth of depression (p < .05), and the Hamilton Rating

 Scale (p < .31). The authors concluded that "in the long run, women

 with depressive symptoms seem to run an increased risk of developing

 obesity" (p. 86), and "the personality variables studied seem to be of

 only minor importance for the development of obesity in adult life" (p.

 86).

 Webb, Phares, Abram, Meixel, Scott, and Gerdes (1976) report on the

evaluation of 70 patients for "psychological features" prior to bypass

surgery (p. 83). The evaluation consisted of a psychiatric interview, a

short form of the WAIS, the MMPI, Rorshach, a sentence completion blank,

and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. Eight were considered unfavorable

for surgery. Only one of these was psychotic; the other seven had

severe personality or psychoneurotic disorders. The investigators

diagnosed 56 of the surgical candidates as having mild personality

disorders, 3 with psychoneurotic disorders, none as being psychotics,

and 6 as being normal. The authors concluded that on a "group basis,

their personality problems were within normal limits" (p. 85), "that

severe psychological problems are rare, but that mild emotional

immaturity is frequent, indeed modal" (p. 85).