Structural relationships of dental anxiety, mood, and general anxiety

Authors: Hakeberg M.; Hägglin C.; Berggren U.; Carlsson S. G.

Source: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, Volume 59, Number 2, 1 April 2001 , pp. 99-103(5)

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Abstract:

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.

Keywords: BEHAVIORAL; DENTISTRY; DENTAL; ANXIETY; PSYCHOLOGICAL; DISTRESS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRUCTURAL; EQUATION; MODELING

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Oral Diagnosis, Faculty of Odontology, G¨oteborg University, Box 450, SE-405 30 Go¨teborg, Sweden

Publication date: 2001-04-01

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