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Financial success can lead to loneliness, struggle maintaining relationships
- infradig 6y agoSo can financial failure, I would presume.
- bdcravens 6y agoGrowing up very poor, I feel like I'm not speaking from an ivory tower: struggling financially causes you to lean more heavily on your personal relationships.
- AQXt 6y agoIf you started your life very poor, you didn't fail. Now imagine that you started your life very rich, and lost everything; asking for help would expose your financial "failure" to everyone.
- AQXt 6y agoA better title would be: Basing your self-worth on financial success can lead to loneliness. According to the study co-author Lora Park: "When people base their self-worth on financial success, they experience feelings of pressure and a lack of autonomy, which are associated with negative social outcomes"