Question

Your text’s discussion suggests that scores on the Holmes Stress Scale should be ________ correlated with the likelihood that victims of a natural disaster will develop posttraumatic stress disorder.

Answer 1

positively

Step-by-step explanation:

A correlation is either negative or positive.

Positive correlation: In psychology, the term positive correlation refers to the process in which the relationship between two different variables is being mentioned i.e if one variable increases then the other variable must also increase and vice-versa. In other words, if two different variables have a positive correlation then this signifies that both moves in the same direction.

Example: Height and weight.

In the question above, the given statement is positively correlated.