Comparison of perceptions of obesity among adults with central obesity with and without additional cardiometabolic risk factors and among those who were formally obese, 3 years after screening for central obesity

Table 4 BIPQ scale correlations (r) in the 3 study groups

	BIPQ scale	Timeline	Personal control	Behavioural control – physical activity	Identity	Illness concern	Behavioural control - diet	Emotional representation
Persistent cardiometabolic risk group (n = 80)	Consequence	0.29**	0.15	0.10	0.71**	0.68**	0.15	0.61**
	Timeline		0.05	0.08	0.36**	0.36**	0.10	0.21
	Personal control			0.23*	−0.01	0.07	0.23*	0.02
	Behavioural control – physical activity				−0.03	0.14	0.43**	−0.04
	Identity					0.67**	0.21	0.58**
	Illness concern						0.24*	0.51**
	Behavioural control - diet							0.11
Persistent obesity group (n = 63)	Consequence	−0.07	−0.20	0.29*	0.62**	0.66**	0.35**	0.60**
	Timeline		−0.20	−0.04	−0.02	−0.10	−0.08	−0.01
	Personal control			0.03	−0.19	−0.08	−0.01	−0.07
	Behavioural control – physical activity				0.32*	0.30*	0.55**	0.28*
	Identity					0.67**	0.20	0.56**
	Illness concern						0.34**	0.63**
	Behavioural control - diet							0.52**
Improved cardiometabolic risk group	Consequence	0.42**	0.33**	0.15	0.63**	0.75**	0.35*	0.36*
	Timeline		−0.18	−0.06	0.61**	0.61**	−0.09	0.18
	Personal control			0.50**	0.12	0.22*	0.32*	0.07
	Behavioural control – physical activity				0.07	0.32*	0.42**	0.09
	Identity					0.62**	0.15	0.30*
	Illness concern						0.20	0.45**
	Behavioural control - diet							0.32*

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