The Relationship between Stressful Personality Environmental Factors, Coronary Heart Disease Type

The present study seeks to investigate the relationship between stressful environmental factors, coronary artery disease and personality traits. The subjects of the study comprised all patients with coronary artery disease who were admitted to JavadAlaeme Heart Hospital between 1391 and 1392. Accordingly, 79 subjects were specified for sampling based on the Krejcie and Morgan table. Furthermore, the Eysenck questionnaire containing 57 questions was utilized for data collection. In this study, the correlation coefficient was used to analyze and interpret the obtained data. The findings of the study revealed there was a correlation between introversion and coronary heart disease and also between the stressful environmental factors and the disease. This is an exploratory research applying the correlation method.