Abstract
Three groups of children, suicidal, chronically ill, and normal, aged 6-12, were studied, focusing on the relation between some aspects of cognitive inflexibility and suicidal behavior. Inflexibility was defined in terms of the ability to give an alternative solution to a dilemma about life and death that is different from one's own. The degree to which each child perceived death as attractive, an important determinant in children's suicidal behavior, was also obtained. The data were analyzed in terms of the chi-square (relations between group and ability to give alternatives), a discriminant analysis, and series of correlations (between degree of attraction to death and ability to give alternatives). The results indicate that suicidal children gave fewer alternatives than normal or chronically ill children, at least with regard to issues of life and death, and that there is a significant correlation between attraction to death and the inability to give alternatives for suicidal children only.
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