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Fig. 3

From: Comorbidity between depression and anxiety: assessing the role of bridge mental states in dynamic psychological networks

Fig. 3

Networks depicting the group-average lagged association (fixed) effects between mental states of the VAR(1) model for the comorbid, depression-only, and anxiety-only groups. Each node in the network represents a mental state: REL, not relaxed; NER, feeling nervous; IRR, feeling irritated; WOR, worrying; CHE, not cheerful; LIS, feeling listless; DOW, feeling down. Each edge is the lagged association of that mental state at t-1 (3 h before) with another mental state at t (now). Autoregressive effects (curved arrows from and to the same node) show the influence of the mental state on itself over time. Green (solid) arrows reflect positive effects over time, while red (dotted) arrows reflect negative effects over time

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