Compassion-Focused Therapy-Based Intervention for Treating Body Dysphoria amongst College Students in Goa

This study proposed compassion-focused therapy-based intervention to ameliorate body image amongst college students in Goa. The study aimed in investigating the impact of compassion- focused therapy on body dysphoria and whether there is difference in body dysphoria among male and female students. Situational Inventory of Body Image Dysphoria (SIBID) by Cash (2002) was administered on a sample of 60 college students. Paired t test revealed that there is a significant difference in the pre- and post- intervention scores of Body Dysphoria among college students (t=57.31, P<0.001). Further, data was analyzed to investigate the significant difference in the scores of body dysphoria among male and female student and t test indicated that there is no significant difference in the scores of body dysphoria (t=-1.76; P>0.05).The data was also analyzed to study the significant difference in the scores of body dysphoria among students from rural and urban area however, t test indicated that there is no significant difference in the scores of body dysphoria (t=-0.43; P>0.05). The statistical analysis revealed that college students differ significantly very high in the pre- and post-intervention scores of body dysphoria thus indicating that compassion-focused therapy did have an impact on the students.