Role of Resiliency in Relation to Early Maladaptive Schemas and Anger Management Strategies for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

this study was carried out aimed to determine the mediating role of resiliency in relation to early maladaptive schemas and anger management strategies for patients with coronary artery disease. the present study is considered as a descriptive correlational research. The statistical population included all patients with coronary artery disease referred to Government Heart Hospitals in Tehran during the second six months of 2017, 1,400 people, who were selected using purposive volunteer sampling, 302 patients (163 female and 139 male patients) were selected as the research sample. The research tools included The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Yang's early maladaptive schemas, and Hammond & Yung’s Anger Management Skills. The test data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. According to the results, resiliency mediates the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and anger management strategies. Resiliency and anger management strategies somehow have a predictive role for early maladaptive schemas, so that the early maladaptive schemas reduce by increasing the resiliency and anger management control strategies. The results also showed that there is an indirect relationship between early maladaptive schemas with the mediating role of resiliency and anger management strategies, so that the aggression of the patients also increases as the early maladaptive schemas increase, and, consequently, their resiliency rate decreases. It seems necessary to pay special attention to the importance of resiliency and early maladaptive schemas as euthanasia processes in development of transdiagnostic programs to increase the anger management skills of cardiac patients.