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Published in final edited form as: J Res Pers. 2015 Oct 1;58:137–142. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2015.07.006

Table 3. Meta-analysis of the Relation between Personality and BMI in Asian Samples.

	Neuroticism	Extraversion	Openness	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness
	Males
Sample
Japanese adults	.00	.17^*	-.05	.11	.00
Chinese adolescents	-.02	.09^**	.02	.04^*	-.01
Shim et al. (2014)	.01	.03^*	.00	.01	.00
Meta-analysis random model	-.01	.08^**	.02	.03^*	.00
Heterogeneity
Q	1.40	6.34^*	.59	1.91	.07
I²	0	68.46	0	0	0
	Females
Sample
Japanese adults	-.12	.07	.08	.03	-.02
Chinese adolescents	.00	.02	.02	-.02	-.04^*
Shim et al. (2014)	-.03	.01	-.07^*	.07^*	.00
Meta-analysis random model	-.02	.02	.00	.03	-.02
Heterogeneity
Q	3.46^*	.89	13.51^*	10.35	2.42
I²	42.19	0	85.20	80.69	17.34

Note. Total N for the meta-analysis 5154 for males and 5150 for females.

p<.05.

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p<.01.