About Closeness and Malicious Intent: Role of Loneliness with Emotional intimacy to Malicious envy/ Tentang Kedekatan dan Niat Jahat: Peran Kesepian dengan Kelekatan Emosional Terhadap Iri Hati

Abstract

Previous studies have discussed a lot about the factors that cause malicious envy. However, there are still no studies that discuss loneliness and emotional intimacy as one of the factors that predict malicious envy. The current study aims to examine the effect of loneliness and emotional intimacy on malicious envy, and to find out which of the two variables has the greatest influence on malicious envy. This research is a cross sectional quantitative research with ex post facto method. The sampling technique used was convenience sampling, with a total of 512 respondents aged 18-34 (SD = 2.61) years and were Instagram users. Based on the research findings, loneliness and emotional intimacy positively affect envy, where loneliness is the most influencing factor for envy.