Following a “psycho-dynamics” paradigm, two psychiatric direct-estimation scales (each pertaining to classification names for psychotic disorders as the stimuli and each based on judgments from two independent groups of psychiatrists, Ns = 29 and 33) were shown to be systematically interrelated. A power function was preferred to show the relation. The form of the relationship between judged susceptibility to external stress and judged prognostic favorability was discussed. Suggestions for further research were made.
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