Figure 5.

Structural equation model: for the brain regions indicated with functional connectivity of some links associated with the childhood traumatic events score, the correlation of the significant links with the childhood traumatic events score was entered into a structural equation model with the behavioral measures indicated and grouped together to form latent variables. The numbers in bold font show the standardized beta coefficients involving the latent variables. All paths between the latent variables were significant at p < 0.001 (indicated by 3 stars). After the Brain Regions, the functional connectivity between the significant links for that brain area with the childhood traumatic events score is shown. The structural equation model used here enables the different measures for cognition to be grouped, and similarly for the childhood traumatic events and mental health measures, so that relations between the grouped variables can be measured. The direction of the effects to be tested was as shown by the arrows, and was based on a priori hypotheses.