Personal persistence, identity development, and suicide  a study of native and non-native North American adolescents 
Michael J. Chandler ... [et al.] ; with commentary by James E. Marcia. 
 - Boston, Mass.  Blackwell  2003. 
 - viii, 141 p.  ill.  23 cm. 
 - 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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-128). 
<br/><br/>The antinomy of sameness and change -- On self-continuity and its developmental vicissitudes: what young people have to say about the paradox of sameness and change -- Self-continuity and youth suicide -- From self-continuity to cultural continuity: aboriginal youth suicide -- Culture as a set point in the choice between narrativist and essentialist self-continuity warranting practices -- Conclusions -- Sample questions from the personal persistence interview -- Treading fearlessly: a commentary on personal persistence, identity development and suicide / James E. Marcia. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004297393 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenagers--Suicidal behavior.<br/>Self-perception<br/>Indians, North American--psychology.<br/>Cross-Cultural Comparison<br/>Adolescent psychiatry<br/>Suicide--prevention & control.<br/>Adolescent psychotherapy<br/>Suicide--Prevention.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RJ506  / .S9 P37 2003