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Fig. 2 | BMC Psychiatry

Fig. 2

From: Optimism and symptoms of anxiety and depression among Chinese women with breast cancer: the serial mediating effect of perceived social support and benefit finding

Fig. 2

The final research model. Note: Structural equation model for the association between Optimism, Perceived social support (PSS), Benefit finding (BF), and Negative emotion (NE). Rectangles represent manifest variables(average score of the scale), Circles represent latent variables. Solid and dotted lines signify statistically significant and nonsignificant standardized path coefficients, respectively (**p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001)

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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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