Psychosomatic Medicine 35:57-63 (1973)
© 1973 American Psychosomatic Society

The Affective Responses of Obese Patients to Weight Reduction: A Differentiation Based on Age at Onset of Obesity

¹ From the Rockefeller University, New York, New York; A portion of this work was completed while Dr. Grinker was a Russell Sage Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University
² From the Rockefeller University, New York, New York
³ From the Rockefeller University, New York, New York; N.I.H. Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, Bethesda, Md.

The affective responses to weight reduction of five severely obese patients with adult onset of obesity were studied during a long-term hospitalization. Anxious and depressive symptoms, measured by objective rating and self-rating procedures, did not increase with weight loss. These results are in contrast to earlier findings from this laboratory of disturbances in affective responses following weight loss for patients with juvenile-onset of obesity. These results suggest that the behavioral response to weight reduction is dependent upon age at onset of obesity.

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