Conceptualization styles of attributing pleasant and unpleasant events in the Quran

This study aims to investigate the attribution styles of pleasant and unpleasant events in the Qur'an. The method used in this study was qualitative analysis of the content of religious texts (Shojaei, 1399). For this purpose, concepts and statements related to documents were collected from the Holy Quran using two strategies, "lexical search" and "open text reading", and the data were entered into MAXQDA software version 2018 after qualitative analysis. The findings of this study led to 76 initial statements, the analysis of which ultimately led to two descriptive styles of "descriptive" and "prescriptive" in both pleasant and unpleasant situations; And resulted in a total of 9 attribution styles. Descriptive documents in unpleasant situations, including three styles of attributing to "God", "self" and "others"; And descriptive documents in pleasant situations included two styles of attribution to "God" and "self." Prescription documents in unpleasant situations include three styles of attribution to "man", "devil" and "God"; And prescription documents in pleasant situations only included documents to "God." Validation based on two indicators of "reliability" and "applicability" of the findings was reviewed and approved by 8 experts in Islamic sciences and psychology based on content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR).