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- The study explores how emotional well-being in recent widows fluctuates over 98 days following their loss, revealing that this emotional state behaves like an oscillating process that lessens over time.
- Researchers focused on how different aspects of social support influence these emotional changes in 28 widows, finding that seeking emotional support created a more pronounced emotional trend, while perceived control over social support created a more stable one.
- The study highlights the importance of understanding personal differences in emotional variability among widows to help identify what affects their adjustment to the loss of a spouse.
Article Abstract
The variability pattern of emotional well-being in recent widows across a 98-day period beginning in the first month post-loss has previously been modeled by dynamical systems and shown to be an oscillating process that damps across time. The goal of the present study was to examine how variables that comprise the social support network predict characteristics of these emotional shifts in 28 recent widows. In the present study, emotional support seeking led to a steeper overall trend, whereas perceived control for social support led to a shallower overall trend. When examining intraindividual variability, instrumental support seeking predicted a slower damping rate. Understanding the individual differences in the variability patterns of recent widows is a necessary step in identifying the etiology of adjustment to widowhood.
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