| Summary: | Public opinion regarding the meaning of subjective well-being (happiness)
between healthy people and people with terminal illnesses influence the process
of defining subjective well-being. Growing public assumption nowadays stated
that subjective well-being can only be achieved by healthy people, while people
with chronic diseases, such as HIV/AIDS (ODHA), will experience difficulties in
attaining subjective well-being. Such careless assumption will only worsen the
condition of people with HIV/AIDS (ODHA). This research aims to increase the
subjective well-being of people with HIV/AIDS by the application of relaxation
training, specifically breathing relaxation. This research used quasi experiment
with small N, using ABAB design. This method was based on the perspective that
deeper analysis to an individual subject will reveal a more thorough
understanding. This method consists of four phase, namely the first baseline, first
treatment, second baseline, and second treatment. During each baseline phase,
the author observed participant behavior without giving treatment. During each
treatment phase, participant was given breathing relaxation. The author observed
and measured distress, life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect.
Results showed that relaxation training�especially breathing relaxation�hasn�t
able to increase positive affect and increase subjective well-being in subject �S�.
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