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Fig. 2 | BMC Psychiatry

Fig. 2

From: Quality of life and care burden among family caregivers of people with severe mental illness: mediating effects of self-esteem and psychological distress

Fig. 2

Proposed mediation model for the present study

Note: Care burden, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety were proposed as having direct impacts on quality of life. Care burden was also proposed as affecting quality of life via self-esteem only, or via depression/anxiety only, or via self-esteem and depression/anxiety.

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