en Epidemiology Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Ba</strong><strong>ckground:</strong> Obesity leads to a wide range of problems. Hence, this research was conducted to compare the trait-state anxiety as well as positive and negative affect in obese and normal women.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> This descriptive study was performed in eight sports clubs within the time period of 2017 to 2018 in Ahvaz. To do this, a sample of 200 women, who&nbsp;referred to sports clubs was selected by the convenience sampling method. The tools included the positive and negative affect scale and the Spielberg&rsquo;s state-trait anxiety inventory. The data were analyzed using SPSS (Version 23), the multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA), and the Pearson&#39;s correlation coefficient.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> According to the results, the multivariate analysis of variance at the level of P<0.001 showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the obese and normal women. The difference was in terms of trait anxiety (normal, 39.27<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>9.23; obese, 46.73<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>8.73), state anxiety (normal, 38.20<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>8.62; obese, 47.07<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>8.01), positive affect (normal, 42.15<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>6.12; obese, 38.40<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>7.69), and negative affect (normal, 23.35<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>5.98; obese, 30.12<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>7.04).<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> In this study, the data analysis showed that negative affect and positive affect were different in the two groups. Moreover, the obese women had a higher negative attitude than the normal women. In addition, the results demonstrated that trait-state anxiety was different in obese and normal individuals. Our results indicate that obese people are more anxious than normal people.</span><br> &nbsp;</div> Obesity,Emotions,Anxiety,Affect,Women,Depression, 194 200 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-284-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Sara Mousavi saramhasti@yahoo.com 22400319475328460010590 22400319475328460010590 Yes Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Payame Noor University Soran Rajabi 22400319475328460010591 22400319475328460010591 No Department of Psychology, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran. Persian Gulf University Zahra Ebadi 22400319475328460010592 22400319475328460010592 No Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Payame Noor University Marzieh Mashalpoorefard 22400319475328460010593 22400319475328460010593 No Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Payame Noor University