Interplay of Formal and Material Role-Taking in the Understanding of Suicide Among Adolescents and Young Adults: II. Naive Suicide Theories and the Structural Approach

Constructs a tentative stage model of the development of the understanding of suicide motives, based on interview data from 14-22 year old male & female subjects of different SES backrounds. Development is characterized by these trends: extension of time perspective; differentiation & idividualization of actor schemata & motive language; expansion of the action space, & an increase in self-reflexivity.