Background & Aim: Stressful conditions of society caused that heart-coronary disease stay on top of reasons premature deaths and every year caused danger for the lives of many people in industrialized and developing countries, so considering the importance of heart disease, aims of this study are survey the role of cognitive incongruity and experiential avoidance in prediction of neuroticism in patients with heart-coronary disease of Shahid Chamran Isfehan hospital in 2017.
Materials & Method: This study has the descriptive – co relational design. The statistical population was all patients with heart-coronary in Shahid Chamran Isfehan hospital in 2016 year. The samples were selected by available method for this population, that 100 person have been chosen. They answered questionnaires of acceptance and action Bond, Izang’s neuroticism, and Gillanders cognitive incongruity. To analyse data Pearson correlation and regression were used. SPSS (V-19) software was used to analyse data. Level confidence of 95% was considered.
Results: The results have shown that neuroticism has positive correlation with cognitive incongruity and experiential avoidance (P<0.05). The results of regression showed that cognitive incongruity and experiential avoidance could predict 11/8 percent variance of neuroticism (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Considering the results, we can provide plans and proper actions for reducing cognitive incongruity and experiential avoidance, in order to reduction neuroticism.