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  • Peer adversity may cause girls to feel their self-worth is constantly at risk

    Oct 10, 2022 10:30 am by Sharita ForrestInsights
    psychology professor Karen D. Rudolph and graduate student Haley Skymba. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    • psychology professor Karen D. Rudolph and graduate student Haley Skymba. Photo by Fred Zwicky

    A history of peer adversity sensitizes teen girls to situational threats to their self-esteem and interpersonal needs, cultivating feelings that their self-worth is constantly in jeopardy, a new study found.