Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the intervention based on self-compassion on reducing the psychological distress of students who are victims of bullying. This research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test/ post-test and had control and experimental groups. From the statistical population of male high school students, 40 students who were victims of bullying were identified and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of Neff (2019) self-compassion intervention. After completing the intervention program, post-test scores were obtained from both groups and analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis. The results showed that the intervention program is effective in reducing the stress, anxiety and depression of students who are victims of bullying. It is suggested to use interventions based on self-compassion for injured people.