چکیده (انگلیسی):

The main purpose of this study was to investigate effects of learning effective styles for coping with negative
emotions on coping strategies of cardiac surgical patients. This research is quasi-experimentally and pre-test - post-test
with control and experiment group. Population of the study is all patients with coronary heart disorder in 2013 that were
candidates for bypass surgery during a 6-month period and hospital Fatemeh Zahra (SA) have been referred. for this
purpose, a total of 30 candidate patients of coronary artery bypass surgery were selected by available sampling method
and randomly were divided into two 15 persons groups for experimental and control groups. For the experimental
group, effective coping ways (stress management, anger management, and coping with anxiety and depression) were
trained individually for 7 sessions. Data before and after training was collected by the Lazarus - Folkman coping
strategies questionnaire. The result of t test in investigating subscales of coping strategies in both experimental and
control groups showed direct confrontation with the assumption of equality of the variances with 31 degrees of
freedom, problem solving and positive re-evaluation with the non-equality of variances with degrees of freedom 15.52
and 17.10 there is a significant difference between two control and experimental groups. So we can accept that the
amount of direct coping, problem solving and positive reappraisal between experimental and control groups after the
training is not on the same level (p <0.05).