Self-esteem is recovered by using the credit card

• April 24, 2024

When our self-esteem is threatened, we tend to buy more and use "more" the credit card to make the payments, revealed a study of the Cornell University in United States.

The text, published in the magazine Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS), points out that when our ego feels threatened because we do a task wrong or because someone tells us that we have disappointed, we tend to make expenditures with the credit card, especially to purchase expensive or "luxury" products.

In this sense, the psychologists and researchers of the Cornell University , they specify that these purchases are effective to reaffirm us psychologically:

"Therefore, we ask for caution. In certain circumstances, people with a low socioeconomic level may tend to make purchases on credit that they can not afford to feel better in the short term, with disastrous consequences in the long run, "the research argues.

In this sense, experts recommend better channeling emotions . When stopped and given a space. Inhale and exhale and let the impulse to buy or eat something, pass and then let the emotion flow, when you cry, talk, write or be with yourself.

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