Personal persistence, identity development, and suicide : a study of native and non-native North American adolescents /

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Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.
Description:viii, 141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; serial no. 273, v. 68, no. 2, 2003
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7480500
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Other authors / contributors:Chandler, Michael J.
Marcia, J. E. (James E.)
ISBN:1405118792 (pbk)
9781405118798 (pbk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-128).
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Antimony of Sameness and Change
  • 3. On Self-Continuity and its Developmental Vicissitudes
  • What Young People Have to Say about the Paradox of Sameness and Change
  • 4. Self-Continuity and Youth Suicide
  • 5. From Self-Continuity to Cultural Continuity
  • Aboriginal Youth Suicide
  • 6. Culture as a Set Point in the Choice between Narrativist and Essentialist Self-Continuity Warranting Practices
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 8. Appendix: Sample Questions from the Personal Persistence Interview
  • Part II. Commentary
  • 9. Treading Fearlessly: A Commentary on Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide