Gender Differences in Psychosocial Pathways to Depression and Anxiety: Cross-Sectional and Bayesian Causal Network Study

Han Zhang   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Ye Xia   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Peicai Fu   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Cun Li   ² , MD, PhD ;   Ke Shi   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Yuan Yang   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

² Department of Neurology, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

*these authors contributed equally