Table 4 Sasang personality questionnaire and body mass index measures of each Sasang types across ages

SPQ

  So-Yang

30.65 ± .58

29.58 ± .41

29.70 ± .42

29.42 ± .42

29.49 ± .50

30.28 ± .81

  Tae-Eum

28.94 ± .61

28.32 ± .48

27.71 ± .40

28.49 ± .36

28.06 ± .45

29.01 ± .59

  So-Eum

26.32 ± .55

25.56 ± .43

25.72 ± .45

26.41 ± .50

26.71 ± .74

27.20 ± .90

  F-value

14.905 ***

22.451 ***

19.705 ***

11.313 ***

5.504 **

3.272 *

  Tukey post-hoc

SY>SE, TE>SE

SY>SE, TE>SE

SY>TE>SE

SY>SE, TE>SE

SY>SE

SY>SE

BMI

  So-Yang

21.04 ± .25

22.24 ± .22

23.25 ± .20

23.32 ± .17

23.53 ± .20

23.16 ± .38

  Tae-Eum

24.60 ± .42

25.03 ± .28

25.81 ± .19

25.92 ± .20

25.56 ± .19

25.59 ± .29

  So-Eum

20.04 ± .24

20.73 ± .21

21.64 ± .19

22.17 ± .20

22.32 ± .30

22.11 ± .33

  F-value

60.114 ***

85.809 ***

111.353 ***

98.371 ***

52.383 ***

28.619 ***

  Tukey post-hoc

TE>SY, TE>SE

TE>SY>SE

TE>SY>SE

TE>SY>SE

TE>SY>SE

TE>SY, TE>SE