This randomized-controlled trial examines an online dissonance-based body image program for college students called the EVERYbody Project-Connect. The online (videoconferencing) intervention will be delivered using expert peer leaders in three 90-minute weekly sessions. Expert peer leaders for the EVERYbody Project-Connect are college students with lived and/or academic expertise within both body image and diversity and equity domains who are trained and screened for facilitation readiness. The comparison intervention is a passive, time-matched self-help condition using The Body Is Not An Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor. Both interventions explore diversity and representation within sociocultural body image pressures and provide tools for body acceptance. The study is open to all college students in a universal prevention and risk factor reduction framework. Outcomes will be assessed before and after the three weeks of intervention and at three-month follow-up.
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Internalized appearance norms
Timeframe: Change from baseline through post-intervention (3 weeks later) and follow-up (3 months)
Body dissatisfaction
Timeframe: Change from baseline through post-intervention (3 weeks later) and follow-up (3 months)
Eating disorder pathology
Timeframe: Change from baseline through post-intervention (3 weeks later) and follow-up (3 months)
Negative affect
Timeframe: Change from baseline through post-intervention (3 weeks later) and follow-up (3 months)