Objective: Current cultural and social standards emphasize at attractiveness and thinness. So, a main and worldwide problem among women is body dissatisfaction, which result in eliciting malproductive self- schemas. This can affect the interpersonal relationships, socio-emotional state, and perceived self- evaluation in young individuals. Therefore, this research was aimed to investigating the efficacy of behavioral-mindfulness and non- judgmental acceptance therapy on modifying negative body image, and self- schemas among girls in Tehran.
Design: After announcing the trial on the boards of Tehran Payame Noor University, and applying convenience sampling method, Those who were volunteer for the trial, and their score in Multidimensional body- self relations questionnaire were less than 160, and They obtained scores in the subscale of Satisfaction with body areas less than 33 were invited for initial assessment and interviewing.
Setting and conduct: After initial assessment 26 subjects who were eligible for inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected and randomly were assigned into experimental and control groups (each included 13 subjects). All participants filled out all the items of MBSRQ, and Appearance Schema Inventory (ASI) prior to and after the intervention.
Participants including major eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria were Female, Educational degree upper than diploma, scoring <160 in Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire , scoring<33 in Body Area Satisfaction subscale and Exclusion criteria were any personality disorder (for example paranoid, antisocial,...), and psychological disorder (for example OCD, Bipolar,...) based on clinical interview.
Intervention: Experimental group participants received 12 sessions for behavioral-mindfulness and non- judgmental acceptance therapy. The therapy sessions were included into introducing body image concept, the factors that influence the negative body image, definition of mindfulness, thinking errors correction, taking non-judgmental position about beliefs, mirror-countering, self-monitoring and homework assignments (adopted from Bell and Rushforth, 2008) that it is instructed in 12 sessions (70 minutes).
Main outcome: Result revealed that primary outcome measures ( negative body image and self- schemas modifying after behavioral-mindfulness and non- judgmental acceptance.