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From: Increases in social support co-occur with decreases in depressive symptoms and substance use problems among adults in permanent supportive housing: an 18-month longitudinal study

Fig. 2

The unconditional parallel process growth curve models, examining the trajectories of social support and depressive symptoms (top), and social support and substance use problems (bottom). αss: Intercept for social support; βss1: Linear slope for social support; βss2: Quadratic slope for social support; αdep: Intercept for depressive symptoms; βdep1: Linear slope for depressive symptoms; βdep2: Quadratic slope for depressive symptoms; αsu: Intercept for substance use problems; βsu1: Linear slope for substance use problems; βsu2: Quadratic slope for substance use problems. ss@0-ss@18, dep@0-dep@18, and su@0-su@18 represent data over four observations for social support, depressive symptoms, and substance use problems. The residual variances (error variances) are not shown for better readability. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01

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