Ravanshenasi & Din

This research tries to develop the conceptual model of "anxiety" based on Islamic sources using the qualitative method of "content analysis". Thus, we first studied the definition of "anxiety" in psychology and extracted 12 concepts relating to anxiety from Islamic sources. Studying the validity of these concepts at this stage, we removed one concept and kept the remaining eleven concepts. Then we identified four components and eleven factors of anxiety in Islamic sources based on the data. We evaluated the components and factors with the help of eight experts of Islamic religion and psychology and analyzed them using the "content validity" index (CVI). The experts approved all components and factors. Explaining the relationship between the components, using Qur’anic verses and Islamic narrations, indicates that the cognitive component plays a role in creating anxiety and the emotional component causes physical and behavioral component to appear. Another outcome of this research is that the factors of anxiety are related to each other; and weak faith and worldliness are the most important factors of anxiety.