Meta-emotion status in coronary heart disease patients
Metaemotion in coronary heart disease
Keywords:
Positive Meta-emotions, Negative Meta-emotions, Meta-emotions, Coronary Heart diseaseAbstract
Background: In general, cardiac events are remarkably associated with negative emotions, including symptoms of anxiety, anger, and depression. Negative affectivity is a basic personality trait that refers to the tendency to experience negative emotions which impact on the emotional status of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients. Meta-emotions are defined as emotional reactions about one’s own emotions. CHD patients who simultaneously tend to experience negative emotions and tend to inhibit self-expression are at risk for emotional distress. The objective of this study was to shed light on the status of meta-emotions in CHD patients with hypertension, CHD patients without hypertension and control group. Materials and Methods: Two hundred respondents (28 to 78 years old) [100 CHD patients (50 patients with hypertension and 50 patients without hypertension) and 100 individuals without CHD here referred as ‘Control’] from Varanasi city of Uttar Pradesh were purposively sampled for the conduct of the present study. The present study employed a biographical sheet and the Hindi version of Meta-emotions Scale (MES-H; Jaiswal et al., 2019) based on MES (Mitmansgruber et al., 2009). MES-H consisted of 19 items having two sub-scales - Positive Meta-emotions and Negative Meta-emotions. Mean and SD values were calculated and one-way ANOVA was used to elucidate the state of meta-emotionsin CHD with hypertension, CHD without hypertension patients and control groups individuals. Results: One–way ANOVA manifested significant ‘Between Groups’ effects for Negative Meta-emotions in three groups. Post hoc mean comparisons indicated that CHD with hypertension group and CHD without hypertension manifested significantly higher negative meta-emotions in comparison to controls. Moreover, non-significant ‘Between Groups’ effects also indicated CHD with hypertension group and CHD without hypertension and control groups did not differ significantly to positive meta- emotions.
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