Feeling poorer than your friends in earlyadolescence is associated with worse mentalhealth, study finds Cambridge_Uni
, and 11% lower in terms of well-being, than those who saw themselves as economically equal to friends.
Adolescents who see themselves as poorer than their friends were 17% more likely to report being bullied or picked on compared to those who feel financially the same as friends at age 11. While reported levels of victimization fell across the board by the time young people reached 14 years old, those who considered themselves poorer were still 8% more likely to be victimized than those who felt economically similar to friends.
Part of Pi-Sunyer's Ph.D. research looks at the cognitive processes behind how we view ourselves. This includes how memorizing and internalizing self-judgments in our earlier years can guide how we come to think of ourselves—sometimes known as"self-schema."
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