The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder

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.

ISSN: 1471-244X