Young women can experience body dissatisfaction due to high environmental beauty standards. Individuals should have a positive perception of everything in their lives, including their body shape. Analyzing the effect of positive self-talk on decreasing the level of body dissatisfaction in young women. The research design was a quasi experiment using a nonrandomized control group pre-post test design approach. Sampling used a non-probability sampling technique with a purposive sampling approach. The number of samples is 60 respondents which are divided into treatment and control groups. The instrument used was a body dissatisfaction questionnaire. Analysis using the Wilcoxon Test and Mann Whitney Test. The results of this study showed a significant difference between the treatment groups before and after the intervention. Positive self talk will stimulate the work of the ventromedial prefrontal ventricular cortex area, positive messages received will increase the nerve response in the VMPFC which can lead to cognitive changes and positive behavior. There is a positive effect of self-talk on decreasing the level of body-body reduction in young women.
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