摘要:Adolescents who live in orphanages need to adjust to the orphanage’s conditions and rules to meet their subjective well-being.The fact shows not all adolescents living in orphanages are able to achieve subjective well-being in their lives.The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of gratitude training in improving the subjective well-being of adolescents in an orphanage.A quasi-experimental design with a nonequivalent control group design was used in this study.Sixteen orphanage boys with moderately subjective well-being level participated in this study.Data were analyzed using non-parametric statistical analysis Mann Whitney u test and Wilcoxon.The results show that gratitude training is effective for improving the subjective well-being of the participants.The most improvement of subjective well-being was experienced by the participants who actively communicate with caregivers and optimistically achieve goals and expectations.The implication of this research is that to achieve subjective well-being in everyday live we should develop grateful behavior. gratitude training, subjective well-being, quasi experiment, adolescents in orphanages PDF Aesiyah, S.(2013).Efektivitas pelatihan regulasi emosi untuk meningkatkan kebahagiaan remaja panti asuhan (The efectivity of emotiona regulation training to improve hapiness among teenagers living in orphages).Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Surakarta.
关键词:gratitude training subjective well;being quasi experiment adolescents in orphanages