Fig. 2
From: Modeling lifetime abuse and cardiovascular disease risk among women
Hypothesized structural equation model with latent concepts and indicators. Larger circles/ovals represent the latent concepts; squares/rectangles represent the indicators; ‘e’ represent the amount of assigned measurement error; ‘d’ represent the disturbance; the arrows represent the direction of the hypothesized pathways; the numerical values next to the arrows indicate the scaling of the pathway; CTQ = Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; ISA = Index of Spouse Abuse; ASA = adult sexual assault; CESD = Center for the Epidemiologic Studies of Depression scale at data collection times 1 through 5; BMI = body mass index; WC = waist circumference; SBP = systolic blood pressure; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; CVD Risk = Cardiovascular disease risk