caa a22 4500 386339457 CHVBK 20180307111744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000444 doi S0954579400000444 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000444 Identity formation in suicidal and nonsuicidal youth: The role of self-continuity [Elektronische Daten] Adolescents attempt to end their own lives with greater frequency than do either younger or older persons. The aim of this study was to provide a developmental account of this anomaly by examining the contrastive ways in which suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents reason about their own personal continuity through time. Drawing upon an earlier program of normative research into the links between a maturing sense of personal continuity and the development of a sense of commitment to the future, and capitalizing on recent methodologic advances in the study of young persons' maturing sense of self-continuity, a series of comparisons were made between 30 psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents, at varying degrees of risk to suicide, and a matched control group of their nonsuicidal agemates. The results of this study show that, while almost all of the hospitalized adolescents evidenced some degree of developmental immaturity in their attempts to reason about their own identity across time, the high-risk suicidal group was unique in their special inability to locate any grounds upon which to justify their own continuity through time. These findings are interpreted in terms of their relevance for understanding both the normal identity formation process, and for the diagnosis and treatment of adolescents at special risk to suicide. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Ball Lorraine University of British Columbia Chandler Michael University of British Columbia Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 257-275 0954-5794 1:3<257 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000444 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000444 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ball Lorraine University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chandler Michael University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 257-275 0954-5794 1:3<257 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge