The role of emotions regulation, perceived stress, rumination and anxiety in patients with ischemic heart disease and healthy control

Different psychological factors can have a negative effect on our physical health and can cause or exacerbate various diseases such as heart disease. The purpose of this study was to compare stress, emotional suppression, rumination and anxiety in two groups of patients with coronary artery disease and healthy subjects. in a causal-comparative design, 19 male patients with coronary artery disease and 19 healthy controls responded to the following scale: "beliefs about emotions", "worry", "rumination" and "perceived stress". The results were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and showed that two groups were not significantly different in terms of perceived stress (p = 0.15), however, they were different in terms of emotional suppression (p = 0.05), Rumination (p = 0.05) and worry (p = 0.001). The findings of the research indicate that healthy group and coronary artery disease patient experience an equal level of stress, but the patients experience worry, rumination and emotional suppression more than healthy control group. The results Indicate that the high level of emotional suppression in the patient group may lead to increased rumination and mental worry and mental continuity of stress and, consequently, adversely affects the health worsens the condition of illness over time.