Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: A Study of Native and Non-Native North American Adolescents, Volume 68, Number 2

Abstract.

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: James E. Marcia (Simon Fraser University).

Contributors.

Statement of Editorial Policy