A survey of dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies in primary hypertension

The purpose of the present study was to examine dysfunctional attitudes and coping style in individuals of primary hypertension in comparison with normal person. The sample of the study included 50 persons with primary hypertension (22 female & 28 male) that went on Shahid madani Clinic in Tabriz and also 50 normal persons (20 female & 30 male) which were chosen in comparison with patient group. Then we administered Beck & Viysman dysfunctional attitudes (DAS) and Folk man & Lazarus coping style questionnaires. The design of the present research, according to subjects identity and the considered purposes was a kind of describtive-comparative design. The collected data were analyzed by T and MANOVA tests. Primary hypertension is a kind of psycho physiological disorder that in addition to biological and dangerous body factors as a physiological process, psychological factors such as people attitudes and judgment of life events, the style of assessing if they are under stressor and the way they cope with them, they all have essential role on its appearance and expansion. So the result of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between individual with primary hypertension in dysfunctional attitudes and coping style in comparing with normal person.