Given the distancing nature of observer perspective, it also results in a worse sense of self-continuity.

This self-continuity is the most commonly referred to self-representative function of autobiographical memory.

Depends on your starting assumptions, obviously, as well as your personal definition of self-continuity.

Blackmore explores questions of reincarnation, self-continuity, and "the timeless, emptiness, or void, or whatever it is, out of which phenomena appear."

At one end of the spectrum, one may not have enough self-continuity to be able to make meaningful relationships, or to have a workable sense of who she is.

REVIEW OF SELF-CONTINUITY FACTORS: a) Does the community have the ability to maintain and support a sense of self-continuity by adolescents? (e.g. help youth feel "rooted" in the customs of the community):