Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: A Study of Native and Non-Native North American Adolescents, Volume 68, Number 2ISBN: 978-1-4051-1879-8
Paperback
156 pages
August 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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This Monograph demonstrates that disruptions to young
people's developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence
begin to explain the suicide rates among Aboriginal Canadian and
non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.
- Presents a developmental and cross-cultural investigation into suicide among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.
- Links disruptions to developing conceptions of personal or
cultural persistence with suicide rates
- Finds, through a series of normative studies, that Aboriginal
Canadian and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth ordinarily follow
distinctive pathways of identity development.
- Demonstrates that those who fail to own their personal past, and their as yet unrealized future, are at especially heightened risk of suicide, while those who live in communities making an effort to reclaim their cultural past, and to direct the future course of their civic lives, are at dramatically lower risk of suicide.