Psychology
Yale Study Finds 70 Percent of Students Report Real Emotion is Envy Not Stress
The Mel Robbins Podcast
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence & Never Get Angry or Bothered by Anyone
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"70% of them say they're tired and stressed and bored. But then I got really interested in, well, do they really know how they're feeling? So I had them journal. What do you think the real emotion was? The real emotion was envy."
Dr. Brackett's research on his Yale students found that while 70% report feeling tired, stressed, and bored, journaling revealed the underlying emotion was actually envy driven by constant social comparison. Students compared grades, physical appearance, and parental connections, yet sought treatment for stress and anxiety instead of addressing the actual problem of comparison and envy.
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- Programme
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
- Episode
- How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence & Never Get Angry or Bothered by Anyone
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- 36:51
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