Aboriginal Language Knowledge and Youth Suicide

Autor/inn/en	Hallett, Darcy; Chandler, Michael J.; Lalonde, Christopher E.
Titel	Aboriginal Language Knowledge and Youth Suicide
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 22 (2007) 3, S.392-399 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.02.001
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Suicide; Youth; Indigenous Populations; Language Usage; Cultural Influences; Native Speakers; Indigenous Knowledge; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Selbstmord; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Sinti und Roma; Sprachgebrauch; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Muttersprachler; Kanada
Abstract	This brief report details a preliminary investigation into how community-level variability in knowledge of Aboriginal languages relate to "band"-level measures of youth suicide. In Canada, and, more specifically, in the province of British Columbia (BC), Aboriginal youth suicide rates vary substantially from one community to another. The results reported demonstrate that not only did this simple language-use indicator prove to have predictive power over and above that of six other cultural continuity factors identified in previous research, but also that youth suicide rates effectively dropped to zero in those few communities in which at least half the band members reported a conversational knowledge of their own "Native" language. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10