Mokhtar Arefi; Rohollah Rahimi; Mohsen Gol Mohammadian
Volume 23, Issue 1 , May and June 2016, , Pages 122-132
Abstract
Background and Objective: Heart disease, a disorder psycho-physiological risk factors in addition to physical, psychological factors such as personality traits and coping strategies in the incidence and severity it is very important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality traits ...
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Background and Objective: Heart disease, a disorder psycho-physiological risk factors in addition to physical, psychological factors such as personality traits and coping strategies in the incidence and severity it is very important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the personality traits and Coping Styles in healthy men and women compared to those with heart disease outpatient. Materials & Methods: The methodology of the study is causal-comparative research. The study population consisted of all heart disease outpatients and their relatives in May 2015 to the hospital Madani had come out of them, 50 patients with heart disease outpatients (26 males and 24 females) 50 healthy subjects (28 males and 22 females) were matched with healthy controls. The Eysenck Personality questionnaires (EPQ-R) and coping styles of Folkman and Lazarus (WCQ) study was conducted on groups. To analyze the data, descriptive, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and software version 18 (SPSS18) was used. significant level α= 0/01 were considered as well. Findings: The results showed that people with heart diseases of neuroticism and psychopathic sense of difference with normal group (P<0/001). The emotion-focused coping styles are different between the two groups problem-focused coping styles between them but no difference was found. About the role of gender also showed that extraversion and emotional and problem focused coping styles between men and women patients there was a significant difference (P<0/001). Discussion & Conclusion: The results showed that people with heart disease outpatient those anxious, fearful, violent, and fast developing anxiety, depression and aggression are higher than in healthy individuals deal with problems Styles emotion-oriented coping pressure.