Figure 5.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and relative sugar consumption in young adult females and the mediating role of emotional eating. The black solid lines represent independent associations between variables and the dashed intersecting lines represent the associations after adjusting for other variables presented in the figure. Purple dashed lines represent the association after adjusting for emotional eating; the blue dashed line represents the association after adjusting for depressive symptoms. Standardized β coefficients without subscripts represent the standardized coefficients of the independent associations (affiliated with the solid black lines), while standardized β coefficients with subscripts refer to the associations after adjusting for the mediators. * Significantly associated at p ≤ 0.050.