Motivational methods of prosocial behavior in Islamic sources

The purpose of this study is to achieve the motivational methods of prosocial behavior in Islamic sources. The present study was a qualitative study using content analysis method. The research community includes all religious sources, including the Holy Quran and Shiite narrative sources, and the sample includes statements containing a network of concepts related to prosocial behavior, which is obtained from purposeful sampling. Information and data have also been collected and classified through the study and recording of books, articles, and the use of electronic libraries. To make the research reliable, the Qur'an and various narrative sources have been used to collect data. Frequent comparisons of the obtained themes with each other and their matching with the data and using the opinions of 5 religious and psychological experts in the data analysis steps have been used. Data from Islamic sources were analyzed; Finally, 57 initial codes, 6 themes and 16 sub-themes were obtained. The results of the present study show that in Islamic sources to encourage people to prosocial behavior, four cognitive methods including paying attention to the consequences of prosocial behavior, principles of humanity, cognitive distortions and valuing, emotional method including divine promise and behavioral method including patterning. The main focus is on cognitive methods because it has the most content.