THE EFFECT OF GRATITUDE TO REDUCING BODY DISSATISFACTION IN FEMALE ADOLESCENTS

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An ideal body shape is the desire of all individuals, especially teenage girls. Adolescence is a transition period between childhood and adulthood, namely the age range of 12-21 years. At that age, there is relatively rapid and significant physical development, giving rise to excessive feelings of paying attention to the body and building body image. In adolescence importance to appearance encourages teenage girls to make their body image good. So, they are two classification about body image. They are satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Body dissatisfaction is an individual's negative mindset towards their body. Teenage girls that has body dissatisfaction maybe has stress, anxiety or depression because of their body. One of the affordable coping mechanisms that can form self-acceptance through positive feelings and has been proven to prevent stress, anxiety, and depression is gratitude. The result of this study obtained Gratitude has an influence on body dissatisfaction of 32,2%. That’s mean, if gratitude was high so they will be lower the level of body dissatisfaction.