Fig. 3: Estimated network structures.
From: A network analysis of rumination on loneliness and the relationship with depression
a,b, Network structures of loneliness and depressive symptoms (a) and loneliness, rumination and depressive symptoms (b) in 900 adults. Each community is colored to represent the variables of interest in this study (namely, loneliness, rumination and depression). The nodes belonging to the same community are assigned the same colors. Blue nodes represent individual items from the UCLA Loneliness Scale version 3. Green nodes represent individual items from the Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS). Purple nodes represent specific depressive symptoms from the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ). The thickness and length of the edges represent the strength of the partial correlation between the two nodes, with thicker or shorter edges representing a larger partial correlation between nodes. The colors of the edges represent the directionality of the partial correlation between nodes, where blue indicates a positive partial correlation and red a negative partial correlation. Bridge symptoms are highlighted in yellow, keeping the nodes above the 80% percentile of the bridge EI by convention43.
