Comparison of dimensions of perfectionism, emotional regulation, and self-awareness in people with cardiovascular disease and healthy people

Cardiovascular disease is considered a severe disease. So knowing the dangers and warning signs can even prevent death. The risk of some types of cardiovascular disease depends on many factors. Some of these factors can control, and others are uncontrollable. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the comparison of controllable psychological components such as perfectionism, emotional ordering and self-awareness in patients with cardiovascular disease. This cross-sectional study is of causal-comparative type. The s Garnefski statistical population of the study was cardiac patients and non-disease patients who referred to treatment centres during the period from August to December of 2017. One hundred fifty patients (75 people with heart disease, 75 people without heart disease) selected by available sampling method. The emotional Cognitive Regulation (Garnefski, 2002) and self-awareness questionnaires (Newstorm, Davis, 2002) and Positive and Negative Perfectionism Questionnaire (Terry-short, 1995) used in the current study. Data were analyzed using independent t-test and MANOVA t-test. The results of this study showed that there is a significant difference between perfectionism, emotional regulation and self-awareness among people with heart disease and healthy people (p <0.05, p <0.05) and analysis of variance confirms the findings. According to the results, it concluded that holding educational courses and cognitive-behavioural therapy and biofeedback for people with heart disease can improve psychological effects on disease progression.