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From: Dental anxiety and potentially traumatic events: a cross-sectional study based on the Tromsø Study—Tromsø 7

Fig. 2

Mediation analyses. Legend Analyses of how the HSCL-10 mediates the effect of three potential traumatic life events on dental anxiety scores using the PROCESS macro in SPSS. The figure contains three analyses that are distinguished through both colour coding and the use of bold and italic text formatting. All events are mediated through the HSCL-10 (indirect effect), but only sexual abuse continues to have a significant direct effect on dental anxiety when accounting for the effect of mediation through the HSCL-10

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