TY - JOUR AU - Oniskovets, Bogdana PY - 2020/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - EMOTIONAL STATES OF ELDERLY WOMEN WITH ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE AS A COMPLEX PERSONALITY PHENOMENON JF - PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL JA - Psychological journal VL - 6 IS - 9 SE - DO - 10.31108/1.2020.6.9.8 UR - https://apsijournal.com/index.php/psyjournal/article/view/1060 SP - 86-93 AB - <p>The article examines emotional states of elderly people with ischemic heart disease (IHD) as a complex personality phenomenon.&nbsp; An individual’s emotional experience is manifested in different emotions, feelings and emotional states, which are evaluative and have negative/positive poles.&nbsp; The main purpose of this work was to analyse theoretically the emotional states of elderly people with ischemic heart disease as a complex personality phenomenon that has mental, psychophysiological and behavioural levels.</p><p>We have determined theoretically that negative feelings worsen a functional state of the heart, causing its electromagnetic destabilization.&nbsp; The main mechanisms of the pathogenic influence of stresses on IHD are: the increased release of catecholamines, which leads to increased myocardial oxygen consumption as a result of an increased heart rate, higher blood pressure and stronger myocardial contraction force; a violated vascular tone of the epicardial arteries and worsened microcirculation; increased platelet aggregation, secretion of certain blood coagulation factors, decreased fibrinolytic activity of the blood.</p><p>Considering the problem of negative emotional states, the scientific literature notes the following states that characterize an individual in difficult life situations: anxiety, depression, asthenia, hostility.</p><p>Long-term emotional overstrain, acute and chronic traumas of the psyche, psychological-emotional disorders, the most significant of which are depressive and anxiety-phobic, influence significantly on older women’s ischemic heart disease.&nbsp; In addition, at the case of depression, behavioural factors such as patients’ reluctance to take medications or to comply with the prescribed regimen have a significant effect.</p><p>The article determines that elderly women’s emotional states are mainly negative, they are caused by chronic emotional stresses, emotional overstrain (distress) and psychological-emotional disorders and increases the risk of coronary heart disease.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -