Background: Obesity is a complex and multifactorial, chronic disease which is the result of the interaction between genetic factors, behavioral and environmental. Methods: Study of quantitative, analytical, type descriptive-correlational study scope. We included people between 18 and 30 years with a diagnosis of obesity in which the following instruments were used: YSQ-L2 (early wrong adaptive schema), NEO PI-R (personality), USQ (vital events); in addition the genotyping for polymorphisms rs1501259 of the ADIPOQ gene, rs6265 of the
