Turning to our analyses of interest, we tested whether personality traits had a significant effect on both the intercept and the linear slope (see Table 5). Although we focused on the effect of personality on the intercept and slope of BMI, the findings from the HLM analyses were similar across the other adiposity measures. Across these measures (BMI, hip circumference, waist circumference, and body fat), the median correlation among the estimates for the traits on the intercept was .91 (range .84 to .98) and the median correlation among the estimates for the traits on the slope was .86 (range .74 to .90). Table 5 indicates which findings were significant across all four of the adiposity measures.
