GENERALIZABILITY OF FIELD DEPENDENCY IN ALCOHOLICS

Evaluated the generalizability of field dependency in alcoholics to other aspects of the personality. 30 alcoholics were given the Witkin Rod and Frame Test (RFT) and a variety of measures of psychological and social dependency. All tests were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. Only 2 of the 14 correlations between RFT performance and the dependency measures were statistically significant. However, RFT scores were positively related to intelligence. The factor analysis revealed that the RFT had only a negligible degree of commonality with the other measures. The hypothesis that perceptual-cognitive dependency-generalizes to other dimensions of the personality was questioned. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1968 American Psychological Association.