Table 5.

Associations between abdominal obesity and psychological and life style variables presented for each gender

	Abdominal obesity in men (N = 159)				Abdominal obesity in women (N = 115)
	COR	P	AOR	P a	COR	P	AOR	P a
Depression (≥ 8p) b	1.9 (0.4–9.3)	0.45	-	-	0.99 (0.29–3.4)	0.98	-	-
Anxiety (≥ 8p) b	1.4 (0.4–4.9)	0.51	-	-	2.1 (0.9–4.5)	0.071	1.7 (0.8–4.0)	0.20
Alexithymia (≥ 61p) c	2.4 (0.6–9.8)	0.21	-	-	1.8 (0.7–4.6)	0.23	-	-
High DIF (≥23 p) c	7.7 (1.9–30.4)	0.004	7.7 (1.9–30.4)	0.004	1.8 (0.7–5.0)	0.23	-	-
High DDF (≥18 p) c	0.7 (0.1–5.6)	0.72	-	-	0.7 (0.2–2.8)	0.63	-	-
High EOT (≥ 27 p) c	0.00	>0.99	-	-	0.8 (0.2–4.2)	0.81	-	-
High self-emancipation (≥66 p) d	2.6 (0.6–10.3)	0.19	-	-	1.2 (0.3–5.3)	0.76	-	-
Low self-affirmation (≤38 p) d	1.4 (0.2–12.2)	0.76	-	-	1.4 (0.5–3.7)	0.49	-	-
Low self-love (≤40 p) d	2.7 (0.5–14.1)	0.24	-	-	1.1 (0.4–3.0)	0.91	-	-
Low self-protection (≤30 p) d	0.6 (0.1–4,7)	0.61	-	-	2.1 (0.5–8.3)	0.29	-	-
Low self-control (≤28 p) d	1.4 (0.3–7.1)	0.65	-	-	1.8 (0.6–5.4)	0.32	-	-
High self-blame (≥52 p) d	1.4 (0.2–12.2)	0.76	-	-	1.0 (0.4–2.5)	0.96	-	-
High self-hate (≥50 p) d	1.7 (0.2–14.3)	0.66	-	-	1.9 (0.7–5.1)	0.17	-	-
High self-neglect (≥48 p) d	0.6 (0.1–5.2)	0.67	-	-	2.3 (0.7–7.5)	0.15	-	-
Smoking e	0.6 (0.1–4.9)	0.64	-	-	1.1 (0.3–4.4)	0.92	-	-
Physical inactivity f	1.4 (0.3–6.9)	0.67	-	-	3.2 (1.0–10.5)	0.049	3.6 (1.1–11.8)	0.037
Clinical psychiatric diagnoses	0.7 (0.1–6.0)	0.77	-	-	2.5 (1.0–6.4)	0.062	1.5 (0.4–6-7)	0.57
Age (per year)	1.05 (0.99–1.11)	0.091	1.04 (0.98–1.10)	0.19	1.02 (0.99–1.06)	0.19	1.02 (0.99–1.06)	0.21
Antidepressants	1.1 (0.1–9.6)	0.91	-	-	4.1 (1.2–13.8)	0.025	4.3 (1.2–15.0)	0.022

N (men/women) = 159/125 unless otherwise specified

^aMultiple logistic regression analysis (Backward: Wald)

^bHADS-D

^cHADS-A

^dTAS-20

^eSASB

Missing values for men: ^d n = 3

^e n = 6

^f n = 6. Missing values for women

^d n = 4

^e n = 6

^f n = 6. Men/women: Hosmer and Lemeshow Test 0.226/0.910; Nagelkerke R Square 0.10/0.105