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Bonanno, George A.; Mihalecz, Michael C.; LeJeune, Jenna T.

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“…Another possible explanation is that intense and prolonged expressions of negative emotions, such as anger and sadness, at earlier points in bereavement (Bonanno & Keltner, 1997; Bonanno et al, 1999) may have driven away important sources of emotional support and lead to social withdrawal behavior. The persistent expression of distress and negative emotion is taxing to a person’s social support system.…”

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Faces, feelings, words: Divergence across channels of emotional responding in complicated grief.

Diminich¹,

Bonanno²

2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Recent evidence suggests that the inability to respond in a context appropriate manner earlier in bereavement is predictive of a protracted grief course with poorer adjustment following the loss (Coifman & Bonanno, 2010). However, little is known about the emotional behavior of adults later in bereavement and whether emotional responding becomes dsyregulated across other channels. An impressive body of evidence in the schizophrenia literature demonstrates a marked disconnection between observable displays of emotion and experienced affect within individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia (e.g., Kring & Moran, 2008). On the basis of this influential work, we examined the emotional responses of a sample of bereaved adults who lost a spouse 1.5-3 years previously. One bereaved group had complicated grief (CG) and the other was relatively asymptomatic. We used an idiographic task where participants discussed their relationships with their spouse and current attachment figure in contexts of conflict and intimacy. We measured emotional responses across 3 channels: self-reported affect, facial expressions, and emotional word use. Individuals within the CG group were less facially expressive across contexts than the asymptomatic group but in some contexts reported experiencing greater affect and used more negative emotion words. These findings suggest that complicated grief in later bereavement is characterized by a disassociation between emotional responding across channels, with context insensitive responding, restricted to facial displays of emotion.

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Faces, feelings, words: Divergence across channels of emotional responding in complicated grief.

Diminich¹,

Bonanno²

2014

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…An additional 39% of the sample reported that they talked with their deceased spouses regularly. Bonanno, Mihalecz, and LeJeune (1998) coded core emotion themes from conjugally bereaved individuals’ verbal descriptions of their lost relationship at the 6-month point in bereavement and found that over 80% of the participants described themes indicative of an enduring positive bond. Further, these themes were associated with reduced somatic complaints at later assessments, and these associations remained significant after controlling for initial symptoms and more objective evaluations of adjustment in the lost relationship.…”

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Toward an integrative perspective on bereavement.

Bonanno¹,

Kaltman²

1999

Psychological Bulletin

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For nearly a century, bereavement theorists have assumed that recovery from loss requires a period of grief work in which the ultimate goal is the severing of the attachment bond to the deceased. Reviews appearing in the 1980s noted a surprising absence of empirical support for this view, thus leaving the bereavement field without a guiding theoretical base. In this article, the authors consider alternative perspectives on bereavement that are based on cognitive stress theory, attachment theory, the social-functional account of emotion, and trauma theory. They then elaborate on the most promising features of each theory in an attempt to develop an integrative framework to guide future research. The authors elucidate 4 fundamental components of the grieving process--context, meaning, representations of the lost relationship, and coping and emotion-regulation processes--and suggest ways in which these components may interact over the course of bereavement.

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“…Although the death of a loved one is most commonly associated with sadness, grieving is far from a one-dimensional emotional phenomenon. Rather, grief has been associated with a wide range of negative emotions, such as sadness, anger, contempt, hostility, fear, and guilt (Abraham, 1924;Belitsky &Jacobs, 1986;Bonanno, Mihalecz, & LeJeune, 1999;Bowlby, 1980;Cerney & Buskirk, 1991;Kavanagh, 1990;Lazare, 1989;Ostenveis, Solomon, & Green, 1984;Raphael, 1983), as well as genuinely positive emotional experiences 1993). I will return to the range of emotional responses associated with grieving at a later point in this chapter.…”

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Grief and emotion: A social–functional perspective.

Bonanno

2001

Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care.

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There is little doubt that for most people the death of a loved one is an intensely painful experience. However, there are considerable individual differences in duration and severity of grief (Bonanno & Kaltman, 1999;Wortman & Silver, 1989). Traditionally, bereavement theorists have assumed that recovery from loss is predicated on the concerted review and expression of the negative emotions brought about by grieving. This process, considered part of the "work" of mourning, is thought to foster acceptance of the finality of the loss and aid in the necessary severing of attachment to the lost relationship. More recently, consideration of the social and functional aspects of emotion during bereavement has suggested an alternative view that recovery is most likely to occur when negative grief-related emotions are regulated or minimized and when positive emotions are instigated or enhanced . In this chapter, I will first consider the distinction between the constructs of grief and emotion. I will next outline the traditional grief work view of emotion during bereavement and the competing position based on a socialfunctional view of emotion. Finally, I will review recent empirical evidence pertaining to both the dissociation and facial expression of emotion during 493

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Cited by 25 publications

References 57 publications

Faces, feelings, words: Divergence across channels of emotional responding in complicated grief.

Faces, feelings, words: Divergence across channels of emotional responding in complicated grief.

Toward an integrative perspective on bereavement.

Grief and emotion: A social–functional perspective.

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