the comparison of tolerance of ambiguity, psychological capital and coping strategies between cardiac patients and healthy people

objective: according to psycho-social factors are effective on appearance and progression of heart disease, this study performed with the purpose of comparison tolerance of ambiguity, psychological capital and coping strategies in cardiac patients and health people. methods: the design study was descriptive-causal comparative. the statistical population includes all heart patients and healthy people, 20 to 80 years old from tabriz city in 2014 year that among them, 50 patients and 50 healthy individual who were matched with respect to demographic characteristics were selected by available sampling method. they answered questionnaires of   tolerance of ambiguity (rydell & rosen's, 1990), psychological capital (luthans & et al, 2007) and coping strategies (andler & parker, 1990). results: the results of multivariate analysis of variance have been showed mean of problem focused coping strategy (f=4/07), psychological capital (f=7/35), self-efficacy (f=5/67) and resiliency (f=4/47) in heart patient are significantly less than healthy people and mean of emotion focused coping strategy (f=4/78) and intolerance of ambiguity (f=11/17) in heart patient are significantly more than healthy people but significant different wasn't found in components of hope (f=3/68) and optimism (f=3/49). conclusion: the results of this research intolerance of ambiguity and psychological capital in heart patient are significantly less than healthy people and this patient use emotion focused coping strategy further for coping with stress.