Figure 1.

Hypothesized structural equation model of psychosocial correlates of women’s risk perceptions for chronic disease. Signs above the paths indicate the hypothesized direction of the associations between psychosocial variables and the criterion variable of core beliefs about risk (note that no hypotheses were proposed for associations between the sociodemographic variables of income and education with risk). For simplicity, signs for the direction of the relationships between indicator variables and latent variables have been omitted, as have all error terms. Variable names have been abbreviated (MHLC=Multidimensional Health Locus of Control; CVD=cardiovascular disease; BRCA=breast cancer; BMI=body mass index; LUCA=lung cancer)