Stress Management Model Pattern According to Quran and Hadith

Introduction: today, many psychologists have confirmed the effective role of religion and its impact on mental health. therefore, the present study has been performed to develop a religious model of stress management according to quran and hadith.method: the methodology of the study, due to usual framework, is the qualitative method used the conventional content analysis of the verses of quran and hadith. in the content analysis method, the term “the selection of analysis resources” has been used instead of the research population. the analysis resources in this study include the holy quran, mizan al-hekmah, usul –alkafi and thematic interpretation of the holy quran by javadi amoli. first of all, according to the experts of quranic sciences, the analysis resources are merely used to extract the statements and their types. then, the key words of the word “stress” have been determined in arabic in the religious resources (including warn, painful, dire, liver, alboads, adversity, fear, sin, sorrow, tax, purchase, regret, sadness, joyless, abject.) . in the next step, by interviewing and providing the expert panel based on the extracted categories, they were referred to 23 experts and psychologists who were familiar with religious and psychological resources. they have been asked to state their opinions about the categories of statements and specific items and their prioritization. then, after giving the clear definition about the items and training three experts in order to code the items and categories, the agreement (reliability) level has been evaluated 267 between the codes in order to achieve the reliability between codes. finally, according to the opinions of the experts, a conceptual pattern has been extracted.results: according to the analysis of the verses of quran and islamic traditions, stress management strategies are divided into four general methods: cognitive, behavioral, emotional and multiple-way strategies. each of these methods include more detailed indicators. among the cognitive methods: belief in the wisdom of allah and having stability with insight; among behavioral methods or strategies: patience, praying, repentance, forgiveness, reading the quran and being obedient to the commands of allah in the quran; among emotional strategies: fear of allah, humbleness before allah, having hope when involvement and among the multi-way methods: stress management and the strategies to trust in allah, remembrance of allah, virtue, praying and charity are respectively the best strategies for stress management.conclusion: this study, with a local pattern, can increase the mental health of the community. also, therapists can create health packages based on this model in order to manage stress optimally.