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Navdeep Kaur and Hardeep Lal Joshi
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
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Many studies have provided clear and convincing evidence that psychosocial
factors contribute to the causation of coronary heart disease (CHD). Coronary
heart disease is associated with a large number of psychosocial factors. The
present study was conducted to investigate the role of coronary – prone behaviour
pattern, presumptive stressful life events, optimism, and subjective well-being
in pathogenesis of coronary heart disease. Coronary Scale (CS), Ercta-A,
Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale, Subjective Well-Being Inventory (SUBI),
and Optimism Scale were administered on 118 participants (56 CHD Patients
and 62 Healthy Controls). The age ranged between 40 and 80 years. Data were
processed for Discriminant Function Analysis and One way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA). Analysis of variance showed that patients with Coronary Heart Disease
and the normal group were significantly different in personality type along with
perceived ill health. Discriminant Analysis clearly revealed a linear combination
of coronary scale and two subpart of subjective well-being i.e. transcendence
and social support which account for considerable degree of variation between
coronary heart disease and normal controls