Bonanno Case Study

Introduction
This essay will look into how the concepts of resilience and the four trajectories proposed by Bonanno can be applied in the case studies. The target population of the case studies is people with medical conditions, namely, spinal cord injury, SARS and breast cancer. Furthermore, this essay will focus on the similarities of how people behave when facing a stressful situation. [[[[[Different percentages of trajectories, the possible predictors and the reason of the differences in the percentages of different trajectories]]]]]]

Stressors and effects
The first study is about people suffering from spinal cord injuries. Subjects face chronic stress when dealing with SCI simply because the events leading to SCI could be very traumatizing

However, according to the best-fitting model, the unconditional and conditional model were only slightly different. As both depression and anxiety symptoms has resilience, recovery and delayed, the only difference is that in the depression symptom model, there were chronic trajectory. But owing to the best-fitting model of anxiety, it did not include chronic trajectory because SCI patients may encounter chronic and lasting depression due to their injuries but anxiety response is more reactive to situational

Most of the cases had the highest percentage of people in the resilient group. As many of the individuals in the resilient group were able to cope with their stressors without any dysfunction in their daily lives. They had high social support, more optimistic, used more friendly coping strategies and they relied less on negative aspects such as, social reliance or using unhealthy coping strategies. However, on the other side, many individuals were in the chronic group. They tend to continuously worried about their injuries or symptom, too dependent on social relationship and were less satisfied with themselves and medical