1Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, E-mail: ambika.bhu@gmail.com. Ph. 09934010191
2Department of Psychology, Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, E-mail: anjana.mukhopadhyayll@gmail.com Ph. 09415029773
Online published on 27 September, 2013.
There is increasing evidence suggesting that psychological factors may play an important role in the development of hypertension. Present investigation examined the relationship of certain psychological factors, such as, rumination, positive affectivity, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression with the multiple dimensions of quality of life (QOL) among 50 hypertensive patients of the age range 40–60 years. The statistical analysis of the data, obtained through psychometric tools, revealed that rumination significantly correlated with the physical, psychological and social QOL. Positive affectivity was found to be significantly positively correlated with the physical, psychological and environmental QOL, while cognitive reappraisal correlated significantly positively only with the physical domain of QOL. Further, regression analysis indicated that rumination predicted variance in all the aspects of QOL. Positive affectivity significantly predicted variance in psychological and environmental QOL. Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression did not contribute significantly in the prediction ofQOL among hypertensive patients.
Hypertension, rumination, positive affectivity, emotion regulation, quality of life
