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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Stress Health. 2022 Oct 27;39(3):525–538. doi: 10.1002/smi.3205

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Trait-level expressive suppression moderated the association between retrospective reports of childhood abuse and prospective changes in C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Greater childhood trauma was associated with prospective increases in systemic inflammation, but only among adults higher in expressive suppression. Moderation effects are graphed at one standard deviation (SD) above and below the mean level of childhood trauma and expressive suppression reported in the sample. The dotted black line represents associations at higher levels of expressive suppression (+1 SD) and the solid, dark grey line reflects associations at lower levels of expressive suppression (−1 SD). IL-6 and CRP were log-transformed prior to fitting interaction models, hence the negative values. Figure 2A depicts the interaction between childhood abuse and expressive suppression on prospective changes in CRP and Figure 2B depicts the interaction between childhood abuse and expressive suppression on prospective changes in IL-6.