Figure 1.

Graphical representation of the results of the mediation model. These results were obtained controlling for potentially-confounding variables (age, sex, educational level, occupation, alcohol use, tobacco use, substance use, self-report clinical anxiety and/or depressive symptomatology, use of psychiatric medications, potential minimization/denial of childhood trauma). Abbreviations: CTQ= Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; MZQ=Mentalization Questionnaire; OC-BSI=Obsessive Compulsive subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory