¹Cardiology Department. Jamaran Heart Hospital; ²Psychology department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences; ³Medical Student Research Committee, Tehran Medical Unit, Islamic Azad University.Tehran, Iran
*Corresponding author: Seyyed Mohammad Javad Mirlohi. Medical Student Research Committee, Tehran Medical Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: mj.mirlohi@gmail.com
Published: September 16, 2017. doi: 10.21103/Article7(3)_OA6
Aim: Heart disease and emotional disorders often co-occur, but effective role in dysregulation of heart disease that is often overlooked. Evidence suggests that people with heart disease are more problems in regulating their emotions.The study compared the re-evaluation of cognitive emotion regulation commonly used two strategies- and suppression- between heart disease and the general population.
Methods: Sixty men (30 with heart complaints and 30 without the condition) were selected by convenience sampling method and they responded to the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John) and a demographic questionnaire responded. To analyze the results and descriptive statistics such as frequency tables and inferential statistics, independent T-test was used SPSS software was used.
Results: The result shows that heart disease and general population re-evaluation strategies groups (P<0.01). This is not only different from the strategy reassessment, but in different repression, too. (P <0.001).
Conclusion: The results showed that heart disease and general population used different strategies to regulate their emotions. The key to finding the heart disease group prefer repression to regulate their emotions.
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