Table 1.
Mean and standard deviation of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, positive affect, and negative affect and results of the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to compare the two groups of cardiac patients and healthy individuals
| Variable | Cardiac patients | Healthy subjects | t | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | ||||
| Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies | Positive refocusing | 27.64 (6.24) | 37.78 (6.61) | 7.88 | 0.001 |
| Positive reappraisal | 16.34 (3.14) | 20.38 (4.63) | 5.1 | 0.001 | |
| Other-blame | 15.64 (3.11) | 11.6 (3.98) | 5.64 | 0.001 | |
| Self-blame | 9.82 (2.76) | 6.26 (3.03) | 6.13 | 0.001 | |
| Rumination | 12.66 (2.68) | 16.2 (3.44) | 5.73 | 0.001 | |
| Catastrophizing | 12.24 (3.16) | 10.38 (2.94) | 3.04 | 0.003 | |
| Acceptance | 9.7 (2.56) | 11.78 (3.45) | 3.41 | 0.001 | |
| Positive Affect | 67.28 (19.72) | 78.26 (17.92) | 2.91 | 0.004 | |
| Negative Affect | 91.68 (21.77) | 88.9 (23.11) | 0.62 | 0.537 | |