title: The impact of emotion regulation and illness-focused coping strategies on the relation of illness-related negative emotions to subjective health.
abstract: In this study we examined whether emotion regulation and illness-focused coping strategies mediate and/ or moderate the relation of illness-related negative emotions to patients' subjective health. One hundred and thirty-five cardiac patients participated in the study. Illness-focused coping strategies were found to mediate the relation of emotions to physical functioning, whereas emotion regulation strategies mediated the relation to psychological well-being. Moreover, an emotion regulation strategy (i.e. emotion suppression) and two illness-focused coping strategies (instrumental coping and adherence) moderated the two relationships. These findings suggest that both emotion regulation and illness-focused coping strategies are integral parts of the illness-related negative emotions-health relationship.
authors.affiliation: University of Crete, Greece. karademas@psy.soc.uoc.gr
authors.forename: Evangelos C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Karademas
authors.forename: Calliope
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tsalikou
authors.forename: Maria-Christina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Tallarou
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires