The effect of the learned optimism training program on the optimism level of the students at 9th and 10th class

The study was conducted at 9th and 10th classes in Gazi Anadolu Lisesi (Gazi Anatolian High School) in Küçükçekmece district of İstanbul province in 2008 ? 2009 education term.The Attribution Style Questionnaire and of which the reliability studies were repeated by the researcher and the Life Orientation Test, were used and the acquired optimism education programme that was made by the researcher was applied in the study. The Variance Analyses with Two Factors was made for the Repeated Measures on Single Factor in order to test the efficiency of this programme in the study. The acquired optimism education programme is the independent variable of the study and the optimism level of the students is the dependent variable of the study.The students were separated into experience and control groups according to the sub-dimension of Seligman Attribution Style Questionnaire Negative Combined Score among total 217 students.A meaningful increase in the optimism level of the students in the experiment group for the future was not observed and a meaningful decrease in the negative attribution scores, in other words a meaningful increase in the optimism level as an attribution style, was determined at the end of the study. In addition to this, a meaningful and negative relation between the optimism scores for the future of the students making negative attribution was found as a result of the analysis done.Key words: Optimism, Learned Optimism, Atributional Style