Personal persistence, identity development, and suicide
Subtitle: a study of native and non-native North American adolescents
By: Michael J. Chandler ... [et al.] ; with commentary by James E. Marcia.
Contributors: Chandler, Michael J.; Marcia, J. E.
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- serial no. 273, v. 68, no. 2, 2003.; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- v. 68, no. 2.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior.; Suicide -- Prevention.; Adolescent psychotherapy.; Suicide -- prevention & control.; Adolescent Psychiatry.; Cross-Cultural Comparison.; Indians, North American -- psychology.; Self Concept.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-128).
Table of contents: value: The antinomy of sameness and change; value: On self-continuity and its developmental vicissitudes: what young people have to say about the paradox of sameness and change; value: Self-continuity and youth suicide; value: From self-continuity to cultural continuity: aboriginal youth suicide; value: Culture as a set point in the choice between narrativist and essentialist self-continuity warranting practices; value: Conclusions; value: Sample questions from the personal persistence interview; value: Treading fearlessly: a commentary on personal persistence, identity development and suicide / James E. Marcia.