The mediating role of emotion regulation between childhood-adolescence socioeconomic status and cardiovascular diseases in middle age: Path analysis

authors:

avatar seyede mansoureh hakak 1 , * , avatar alireza kakavand 2 , avatar Hamid Reza Javadi ORCID 3

Social Faculty, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
Department of Psychology, Social Faculty, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Science, Qazvin, Iran

how to cite: hakak S M, kakavand A, Javadi H R. The mediating role of emotion regulation between childhood-adolescence socioeconomic status and cardiovascular diseases in middle age: Path analysis. J Inflamm Dis. 2018;22(4):e156104. 

Abstract

Background: World Health Organization considers to control the cardiovascular diseases as health priority in developing countries. Life course is a biopsychsocial approach to chronic diseases and childhood-adolescence is a major course for development of this diseases. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in relationship between childhood-adolescence socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors in middle age. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted in Cardiology Department of Bu-Ali Sina Hospital in Qazvin in 2017. Two hundred five middle age persons were chosen by judgmental sampling. The study tools were childhood-adolescence socioeconomic status researcher-made questionnaire, Garnefski cognitive emotion regulation scale and Framingham 10 year risk assessment of cardiovascular disease. Data were analyzed by path analysis. Findings: Results demonstrated that negative cognitive emotion regulation mediated the relationship between childhood-adolescence socioeconomic and cardiovascular diseases status. The direct effect of childhood-adolescence socioeconomic status on negative cognitive emotion regulation and this negative cognitive emotion regulation on the cardiovascular disease were approved. Conclusion: Likely, policies for improving socioeconomic status in childhood-adolescence and interventions teaching for the appropriate emotion regulation can stop the development of cardiovascular disease risk and play a basic role in prevention of it.