Envy vs. Jealousy: Helping Teens Understand Two Emotions That Are Easy to Confuse

Scroll through any teenager’s social media feed and you will find both emotions operating at full intensity—the quiet ache of wanting what someone else has and the sharper edge of fearing that something you already have might be taken away. Teens feel both constantly; label them interchangeably and almost universally misunderstand the distinction between them. […]