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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.

This study was aimed understand the influence of Achievement Motivation Training in increase self efficacy of medicine students in Islamic University of Indonesia. Research design of this study was one-group multiplepre-test post-test design on quasi experiment with 173 subjects of experimental group in 2 days training. Data collected by self-efficacy scale from Bandura’s theory (1997). Analysis of the data used non parametrical statistic by Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test. Results showed that Z-score was -10.058 (p < 0.000). Keywords: Achievement Motivation Training, self-efficacy