فهرست مطالب masoumeh hakimi

Cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent reasons of death and disability around the world. Smoking and its relationship with personality traits is one of factors affecting the cardiovascular disease. The present research was aimed to compare coronary smoker and nonsmoker men based on Brain/Behavioral Systems. Therefore, 162 smoky coronary men and 176 non smoky coronary men who referred to Tabriz Shahid Madani hospital completed the Carver- White BIS/BAS scale. Then, based on the final scores, 200 men with Coronary Heart Disease (100 smokers and 100 nonsmokers) were selected by available sampling. (Age range 25-62, mean 51). Data were analyzed by MANOVA. Results showed that there were differences in BAS as a whole, and smoker patients showed high levels of performance in all its subscales include drive, reward responsiveness, and fun seeking (pro smoker patients). Also results showed that there were differences in BIS and nonsmoker patients exhibited high levels a performance in BIS.
Based on our study, BAS patients had higher trend to smok than BIS patients. Then in BAS patients, it is better Along with pharmaceutical interventions, wide educational intervention designed to increase awareness about the dangers of smoking in BAS patients should be done.

Individuals exposed to certain types of images, based on their personality features, experience different emotional states and physiological responses. The present study addressed the effects of stressful and pleasant stimuli on blood pressure and heart rate in male patients with coronary problems and healthy males based on sensation seeking levels.

One hundred and seventy eight male patients with coronary artery diseases referred to Madani Heart Hospital, Tabriz, Iran; and 185 healthy male subjects completed the Sensation Seeking Scale-form V (SSS-V). After obtaining acceptable scores, 100 patients and 100 healthy males were classified in four groups: high sensation seeker patients, low sensation seeker patients, high sensation seeker healthy subjects, and low sensation seeker healthy subjects (each group with 50 samples aged 30-49). First, blood pressures and heart rates were recorded before stimulus induction. Then, the participants were exposed to stressor pictures. After 15 minutes of relaxation, and a cognitive task, the participants were exposed to pleasant pictures. The blood pressure and heart rate were recorded after presenting the two stimuli.

High sensation seeker patients achieved lower scores in diastolic blood pressure in comparison with low sensation seeker patients after presenting the stressful stimulus, and healthy high sensation seekers achieved lower scores in systolic blood pressure in comparison with healthy low sensation seekers presented with pleasant stimulus.

Low sensation seeker patients experienced negative emotions more than high sensation seeker patients. Therefore, the role of induced mood states may be important in relation to physical health.

The relationship between psychological factors and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is one of the topics that has occupied the minds of researchers in the field of health psychology. The present research aimed at studying the levels of sensation seeking in coronary patients and healthy subjects.

Two hundred and twenty-three coronary patients and 255 healthy subjects completed the Sensation Seeking Scale-form V (SSS–V). Next, 100 coronary cases (50 males and 50 females) that had referred to Madani Heart Hospital, Tabriz, Iran, and 100 healthy subjects, were compared in terms of levels of sensation-seeking. All participants were selected by purposeful sampling (aged 25 to 64 years). Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) through the SPSS 18 software.

Coronary male patients scored higher than coronary female patients in thrill and adventure seeking and healthy males scored higher than healthy females in boredom susceptibility. Healthy females scored higher than coronary females in thrill and adventure seeking, and in boredom susceptibility subscale, healthy males scored higher than coronary males.

The identification of individuals with sensation seeking features will allow the identification of susceptible coronary patients for preventive procedures.