Table 5.
Importance of personality dimensions (BigFive)
| Personality dimensions | Total sample Mean (±sd) |
Stress-overeater Mean (±sd) |
Stress-undereater Mean (±sd) |
Stress-insensitive eater Mean (±sd) |
Mean difference between groups p-value* |
Effect size η2** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agreeableness | 3.2 (±0.8) | 3.2 (±0.8) | 3.2 (±0.7) | 3.2 (±0.8) | 0.83 | |
| Extraversion | 3.2 (±0.1) | 3.2 (±1.0) | 3.2 (±1.0) | 3.1 (±0.9) | 0.30 | |
| Conscientiousness | 3.1 (±0.5) | 3.1 (±0.5) | 3.1 (±0.5) | 3.1 (±0.5) | 0.48 | |
| Openness | 2.8 (±0.6) | 2.9 (±0.6) | 2.9 (±0.6) | 2.8 (±0.6) | 0.13 | |
| Neuroticism | 2.7 (±0.6) | 2.7 (±0.6) | 2.7 (±0.6) | 2.5 (±0.7) | 0.01 | 0.006 |
Effect benchmarks: small (η2=0.02), medium (η2=0.13), large (η2=0.26) [31]
*p-values were calculated applying the Kruskal–Wallis test
** η2 was only calculated for motives with sign. p-value