The effect of hope teaching Snyder on attributional style of student

This study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of Schneider’s Hope Teaching theory on the attributional style of the students. Students type of attribution styles were investigated using Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). The research was a quasi experimental one with pretest posttest، control group design. Total sample size was 24 and their experimental and control groups was random. The subjects in the experimental group received some courses on Hope during the eight session treatment period. After the required data was gathered، Covariance was used to analyze the data. The results revealed that Hope teaching increases positive attributional style (internal، stable، general) in positive situations Teaching decreases negative attributional style (external، unstable، local) in negative situations.