George A. Bonanno

TL;DR: Health, financial stress, and emotional stability emerged as strong predictors of variability in depression only for some trajectories, indicating that depression levels do not have a common etiology across all the bereaved.

TL;DR: Bereaved adults who lost their spouse 1.5-3 years earlier and a comparable sample of married adults exhibited deficits in expressive flexibility, and the CG group was less able to enhance and more able to suppress emotional expression relative to asymptomatic bereaved and married adults.

TL;DR: To explore how initial trajectories of distress experienced during the first year following diagnosis with early‐stage breast cancer relate to subsequent long‐term psychosocial outcomes.

TL;DR: Although positive emotions were beneficial regardless of context, context sensitivity for negative emotions at 4 months predicted fewer depression symptoms at 18 months, suggesting the capacity to shift negative emotion responses according to changing context may differentiate those individuals who will show improvements in depression symptoms over time from those who will showing chronic impairments.

TL;DR: This paper used latent growth mixture modeling to identify specific patterns of individual variation in response to three major life events (bereavement, divorce, and marriage) and found that a four-class trajectory solution provided the best fit for bereavement and marriage.