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Emotion Risk-Factor in Patients with Cardiac Diseases: The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, Positive Affect and Negative Affect (A Case-Control Study)

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  • Mostafa Bahremand
  • Mostafa Alikhani
  • Ali Zakiei
  • Parisa Janjani
  • Abbas Aghei

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Application of psychological interventions is essential in classic treatments for patient with cardiac diseases. The present study compared cognitive emotion regulation strategies, positive affect, and negative affect for cardiac patients with healthy subjects. This study was a case-control study. Fifty subjects were selected using convenient sampling method from cardiac (coronary artery disease) patients presenting in Imam Ali medical center of Kermanshah, Iran in the spring 2013. Fifty subjects accompanied the patients to the medical center, selected as control group, did not have any history of cardiac diseases. For collecting data, the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and positive and negative affect scales were used. For data analysis, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) Was applied using the SPSS statistical software (ver. 19.0). In all cognitive emotion regulation strategies, there was a significant difference between the two groups. A significant difference was also detected regarding positive affect between the two groups, but no significant difference was found regarding negative affect. We found as a result that, Having poor emotion regulation strategies is a risk factor for developing heart diseases.Keywords- cognitive emotion regulation, positive affect, negative affect, cardiac disease

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  • Mostafa Bahremand & Mostafa Alikhani & Ali Zakiei & Parisa Janjani & Abbas Aghei, 2016. "Emotion Risk-Factor in Patients with Cardiac Diseases: The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, Positive Affect and Negative Affect (A Case-Control Study)," Global Journal of Health Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(1), pages 173-173, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:gjhsjl:v:8:y:2016:i:1:p:173
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