ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in research on obesity and quality of life. The reason for this growth of interest is that obesity has negative consequences that go far beyond morbidity and mortality. Indeed, obesity is a vexing health problem that has pervasive social implications. Whereas in mainstream psychology quality of life is dened as a global, conscious, and cognitive judgment of satisfaction with one’s life,1 within the medical literature the term has been redened as a health outcome commonly known as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) that broadly encompasses two major domains of functioning: mental and physical.2 Moreover, these two domains have subcomponents, and outcome measures can be dened as either generic or condition/disease specic.
