Table 2 . Intrapersonal stressors .

Stressors	Rank	Mean ± SD
Pain or discomfort	1	2.86 ± 1.23
Having to have cardiac surgery	2	2.61 ± 1.50
Dying because of patients’ illness or surgery	3	2.51 ± 1.38
Time lapse before actual surgery	4	2.39 ± 1.45
Needing pain medications	5	2.35 ± 1.32
Change in diet and eating habit	6	2.22 ± 1.36
Increasing activity	7	2.10 ± 1.18
Resuming previous lifestyle	8	1.89 ± 1.31
Being thirty	9	1.47 ± 1.48
Resuming sexual activity	10	1.38 ± 1.14
The progress she/he making	11	1.35 ± 1.12
Total intra personal stressors		2.10 ± 0.65