Research Article
Predictors of Quality of Life in Portuguese Obese Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Application
Table 1
Observed and latent variables in the assessment of quality of life of obese people.
| Latent variables | Observed variables |
| Psychosocial variables | | Dispositional optimism (DO) | Life orientation | Negative affect (NA) | Scale of feelings | Positive affect (PA) | Scale of feelings | Stigma (Stg) | disease condition | Social support (SS) | Affective (SSA) | Tangible (SST) | Positive social interaction (SSPSI) | Emotional/informational (SSEI) |
| QoL components | | General well-being (GWB) | General health (GH) | Vital health (VH) | Physical health (PH) | Physical function (PF) | Physical pain (PP) | Corporal pain (CP) | Mental health (MH) | Emotion pain (EP) | Social function (SF) | Mental function (MF) |
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