We first examined mean-level differences in personality for overweight and obese participants compared to normal-weight participants, controlling for sex, age, age squared, ethnicity, and education (see Table 1). In the present sample, approximately 45% of participants were in the normal weight range (n = 885), 38% were overweight (n = 740), and 17% were obese (n = 335). Compared with normal-weight participants, overweight and obese participants scored higher on both Neuroticism and Extraversion. In addition, overweight participants scored lower on Openness and Agreeableness and obese participants scored lower on Conscientiousness, compared to their normal-weight counterparts. At the facet-level, compared to participants of normal weight, overweight and obese participants were more impulsive (N5: Impulsiveness), warm (E1: Warmth), and assertive (E3: Assertiveness), were excitement seekers (E5: Excitement-Seeking), tended to be more conservative (low O6: Values), disorganized (low O2: Order), and were more manipulative (low A2: Straightforwardness). In addition, overweight participants tended to be quick to anger (N2: Angry Hostility), preferred to be around others (E2: Gregariousness), and were less open to aesthetics (low O2: Aesthetics) and ideas (low O5: Ideas); obese participants
