The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Coronary Heart Disease and its Comparison with Healthy Individuals at Saidu Teaching Hospital Swat

Abstract

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability of people to understand their very own, and different human’s feelings, to determine between distinctive emotions. This study aims to discover the relationship amongst coronary heart disease and emotional intelligence and its assessment with healthy humans. Even though specific in origins and, what is worse every can purpose the possibility coronary heart ailment are intently related to low emotional intelligence. The target population for this study was those patients within the age brackets of 40 to 60 years where they were earlier diagnosed with coronary heart problems. These patients were categorized in accordance to the duration of their disease. 116 participants were studied in accordance to the hypotheses where it was stated that Individuals with coronary heart diseases have low emotional intelligence than that of healthy persons and the ratios varies among male and females while having greater ratios in males. The Self-report measure (SRMEI) developed by Khan and Kamal in 2010 was used to collect all the requisite information along with a detailed demographic sheet. The result shows that emotional intelligence varies amongst patients and healthy people. Normal people scored higher on emotional intelligence than the patients with high blood pressure and heart disease. The results being estimated are very much in line with the theory as the theory suggests that emotional intelligence is negatively related to the coronary heart disease. Higher level of emotional intelligence is associated with lower rate of coronary heart disease. Specifically normal and healthy persons being included in the study having high emotional intelligence have a score of 257 at SRMEI while those who have a prolonged history of coronary heart disease have a low score of 125 thus again validating the results according to the theory.