Table 2.
Discriminant analysis between the four professional groups
| Functions at group centroids | ||
|---|---|---|
| Function 1 | Function 2 | |
| Psychiatry | 1.177 | .150 |
| Psychology | -.830 | .428 |
| Social work | −1.004 | .272 |
| Nursing | -.287 | -.750 |
| Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients | ||
| Function 1 | Function 2 | |
| Negative affect | -.096 | -.209 |
| Difficulty to treat | .109 | -.290 |
| Empathy | -.464 | .148 |
| Suicidal risk | .316 | .533 |
| Necessity for hospitalization | .000 | .311 |
| Antagonism | .355 | .209 |
Note. N = 628 after a listwise deletion of cases with missing data. Entries present results of a simultaneous solution. Coefficients of 0.30 or above appear in boldface type.