About the Authors

Margaret Stroebe

M.S.Stroebe@UU.NL

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Wolfgang Stroebe

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Rens van de Schoot

Affiliations Department of Methods and Statistics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Optentia Research Program, Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Mahikeng, South Africa

Henk Schut

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Georgios Abakoumkin

Affiliation Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Jie Li

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: RVDS GA. Wrote the paper: MS WS RVDS HS GA JL. Design of the longitudinal study on which this project was based: WS MS.