Fig. 2

Relationship between CTE load and real-life affective well-being. Significant CTE dose-dependent decreases (upper row, from left to right) in real-life affective valence (p = 0.007), energetic arousal (p = 0.032,) and calmness (p = 0.044) in healthy community-based individuals with mild to moderate CTE. Absence of such associations in social-affective EMA measures reflecting evaluation of (bottom row, from left to right) social anhedonia (p > 0.23), appraisal of negative events (p > 0.98) and affective (in)stability (valence MSSD, p > 0.50). X-axis: Childhood trauma screener (CTS) sum score; Y-axis: mean values of EMA indices across 7 days of measurement