Abstract:

Obesity is a metabolic disease that is caused by the excess of energy consumed and characterized by the increase in body fat proportion to the body mass without fat. This study was aimed at evaluating the possible relationship of childhood trauma, forms of connection and defense mechanisms with the etiology of the disease in individuals with obesity. In this study, planned in the form of case-control, 50 patients diagnosed with obesity between the ages of 18 and 65 and 50 healthy non-obesity control groups with sociodemographic characteristics similar to age and gender. All participants were applied with the Sociodemographic Data Form with the Inventory of Life in Near Relationships, the Scale of Childhood Trauma and the Scale of Defence Forms. Results: The scale of childhood trauma was significantly high in the case group according to the total score of the control group (p <0,05). The scale of defence forms was statistically significantly higher than the total score in the case group (p <0,05). In terms of the forms of connection, there is no significant difference between the two groups (p >0,05). The result: childhood trauma and forms of defense and obesity have been linked. We emphasized that genetic and biological factors, as well as psychiatric factors, are effective in obesity etiology. Further research is needed to generalize the findings and develop health strategies for this purpose.

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