Compare emotional self-regulation and perceived stress in patients with cardiovascular diseases and non-patients

The aim of this study is to compare emotional self-regulation and perceived stress in patients with cardiovascular diseases and non-patients. This study is from the comparative researches. The study population included all patients with cardiovascular diseases that in the first six months of 2014 referred to the National Bank hospital. The sample of this study consisted of 120 subjects with cardiovascular diseases and non-patients (60 patients with cardiovascular disease and 60 non-patients) that were selected as purposive sampling among patients of cardiovascular referred to National Bank hospital; the selection of non- patient subjects was done among the relatives of patients. The Cohen Perceived Stress Scale and March emotional self-regulation strategies questionnaire in order to analyze the data, multi- way ANOVA (MANOVA) was used. Results showed that there is a significant difference between patients with cardiovascular disease and non- patients in all components of emotional self-regulated including: cognitive, behavioral, focusing on repositioning and focusing on changing emotion, reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions. In perceived stress, patients with cardiovascular disease than non-patients with negative perception have higher stress and with positive perception have lower stress.

Keywords:

emotional self-regulation , perceived stress , cardiovascular diseases