Structural relationships of dental anxiety, mood, and general anxiety.

• The aim of this study was to explore the structural relationships between dental anxiety, mood, and general anxiety among 220 dentally anxious patients who participated in a clinical study. A structural equation modeling analysis (SEM) was applied by using the LISREL program on the hypothesized latent variables dental anxiety, mood, and general anxiety, which were measured by means of several psychometric tests. The final model showed that mood and general anxiety had positive factor loadings on dental anxiety. However, the impact of the general anxiety latent variable was not significant as compared with the mood factor. Another finding was that the residual variance for the latent variable dental anxiety was 0.68, indicating that a major portion of the variance is still unexplained by the tested variables. In conclusion, this study showed a relationship between dental anxiety, general anxiety, and mood among dentally anxious patients.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Other Medical and Health Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Adult

Affect

Anxiety

complications

psychology

Dental Anxiety

complications

psychology

Female

Humans

Male

Manifest Anxiety Scale

Models

Psychological

Multivariate Analysis

Psychometrics

Adult

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