An attempt was made to investigate the hypothesis that psychiatric patients who commit suicide are more field dependent than non-suicidal psychiatric patients. Measures of field dependence were obtained from both groups (N = 84 in each group). It was found that suicide committers were more field dependent than non-suicidal patients.
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