title: The roles of implicit memory bias, depression, and metacognitions in men and women with coronary artery disease.
abstract: The purpose of this research was to examine the role of implicit memory bias, depression, and metacognitions in coronary artery disease (CAD) and the relationships between implicit memory bias, depression, and metacognitions based on gender, age, and educational status. Participants were 30 patients with CAD and controls who were selected through a purposive sampling method in Iran. A demographic questionnaire, the Meta-Worry Questionnaire-30; the Beck's Depression Inventory-II; and the Word Stem Completion Software were used in this study. Resulting data demonstrated that patients with CAD had significant higher levels of depression, metacognitive worry, and negative-mood-inducing words than individuals in the control group. Also, individuals in the control group had significant higher performance on neutral-mood-inducing words than patients with CAD. Depression and metacognitive variables were significantly related to negative- and neutral-mood-inducing words in the total sample. Findings did not support significant relationships of age and educational level to depression, metacognition, and the implicit memory bias in males and females.
authors.affiliation: Eghlid Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. Khodarahimi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Siamak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khodarahimi
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rasti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003071:Cognition; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires