Mapping resilience and other outcomes following potentially traumatic life events. Our research in this area attempts to map multiple trajectories of outcome following various potentially traumatic life events. The most common outcomes we have identified, both theoretically and empirically, include resilience, recovery and chronic dysfunction. Our recent studies have attempted to better capture the full heterogeneity of long-term responses to aversive events using structural equation models, such as Latent Growth Mixture Modeling (LGMM). Among the life events we have investigated include bio-epidemic, the death of loved one, terrorist attach, traumatic injury, life-threatening disease and surgery, exposure to combat, divorce and job loss. Our lab collaborates in this work with Anthony Mancini of Pace University and Isaac Galatzer-Levy of New York University, as well as a host of other colleagues nationally and internationally.
The Project to Understand Reactions to Loss (PURL) study. This is a 4-year, NIMH-funded study using experimental procedures and interview-based measures to examine differences between Complicated Grief, recovery from loss, and resilience to loss. We have recently completed data collection. For more detail on the project, please visit our website: http://www.tc.edu/thePURLstudyweeblylink_new_window
Emotional flexibility and coping flexibility. We have developed an experimental paradigm to measure flexibility in emotion regulation. The original version of this paradigm pertained to expressive flexibility (EF) and assessed people’s ability to ramp up or enhance and ramp down or suppress emotional expression. More recent versions of the paradigm have involved the up- and down-regulation of affective experience using using evoked response potential (ERP) in collaboration with Tracy Dennis and her colleagues at Hunter College. We have also developed a questionnaire measure of flexibility in coping with potential trauma, The Perceived Ability to Cope with Trauma (PACT) scale (Bonanno, Pat-Horenczyk, & Noll, in press).
Coping with loss in China. As part of the Predictors and Parameters Study we examined various aspects of coping with loss in the People’s Republic of China. These data were collected in the late 1990. Currently, we are collecting data in Hong Kong, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Samuel Ho of the University of Hong Kong.
The Project to Understand Reactions to Loss (PURL) study. This is a 4-year, NIMH-funded study using experimental procedures and interview-based measures to examine differences between Complicated Grief, recovery from loss, and resilience to loss. We have recently completed data collection. For more detail on the project, please visit our website: http://www.tc.edu/thePURLstudyweeblylink_new_window
Emotional flexibility and coping flexibility. We have developed an experimental paradigm to measure flexibility in emotion regulation. The original version of this paradigm pertained to expressive flexibility (EF) and assessed people’s ability to ramp up or enhance and ramp down or suppress emotional expression. More recent versions of the paradigm have involved the up- and down-regulation of affective experience using using evoked response potential (ERP) in collaboration with Tracy Dennis and her colleagues at Hunter College. We have also developed a questionnaire measure of flexibility in coping with potential trauma, The Perceived Ability to Cope with Trauma (PACT) scale (Bonanno, Pat-Horenczyk, & Noll, in press).
Coping with loss in China. As part of the Predictors and Parameters Study we examined various aspects of coping with loss in the People’s Republic of China. These data were collected in the late 1990. Currently, we are collecting data in Hong Kong, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Samuel Ho of the University of Hong Kong.