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Psychosomatic Medicine 27:238-244 (1965)
© 1965 American Psychosomatic Society

Psychological Differentiation (Field Dependence) in Obese Women

STEPHEN A. KARP PH.D.1 and HERBERT PARDES M.D.2

1 Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
2 Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Level of psychological differentiation, a measurable dimension of personality structure, has previously been found to distinguish various pathological "symptom" groups from matched control groups. In the present study, perceptual tests reflecting differentiation were administered to obese and control patients to determine the existence of a significant difference between these groups. Thirty-four obese female volunteers from a nutrition clinic and 34 matched controls within the normal weight range were given a battery of three perceptual tests reflecting differentiation. Results showed the obese group to be significantly less differentiated than the control group.

Submitted on September 11, 1964






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