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This study explores the relationship between obesity and borderline persona
lity symptomatology in two clinical settings: a psychiatric vs primary care
setting. The body mass indices (BMI) of 48 women from a psychiatric outpat
ient setting and 83 women from a primary care setting were calculated. Each
participant completed the borderline personality scale of the Personality
Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R). While BMI and PDQ-R were moderate
ly related in the psychiatric sample (r = 0.43, P < 0.01), there was a lack
of association between these variables in the primary care sample (r = 0.0
4, P > 0.05). In conclusion, women's increasing body weight appears to have
some degree of correlation to borderline personality symptomatology among
psychiatric patients, whereas it apparently does not among primary care pat
ients.