diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/HiddenFieldCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/HiddenFieldCheck.java
index 1512014aa..2f645e704 100755
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/HiddenFieldCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/HiddenFieldCheck.java
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ public class HiddenFieldCheck
             if (mInstanceFields.contains(aField)) {
                 return true;
             }
-            if (mStaticType) {
+            if (isStaticType()) {
                 return false;
             }