Envy: A Social Emotion Characterized by Hostility

Bao-Pei, WU; Chang, Lei

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1042.2012.01467

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“…Smith and Kim [8] argued that envy might lead to aggression because of the feeling of frustration. Moreover, Bao-Pei and Lei [46] found that envy can lead to multiple types of aggression, such as interpersonal conflicts and vicious crimes. Additionally, envy has been considered a sin for a long time [25].…”

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How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Jiang

Dong

et al. 2022

BMC Psychol

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Background Prior studies have indicated the link between the Big Five personality traits and aggression. Based on the general aggression model, the purpose of this study is to reveal the formation mechanism of aggression from the people’s internal emotional perspective. Envy is a typical negative emotion that can be divided into benign/malicious envy. Therefore, we aim to explore the intrinsic role of benign/malicious envy within the Big Five personality traits in its connection to aggression. Methods We recruited 839 participants [229 men (27.29%) and 610 women (72.71%); mean age ± SD = 19.45 ± 2.39] who we tested with the NEO Personality Inventory, the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale, and the Aggression Questionnaire. Results The results of suggested that neuroticism was significantly and positively associated with aggression, while agreeableness was negatively related to aggression. Moreover, mediation analysis revealed that malicious envy works both in the relationship of neuroticism-aggression and agreeableness-aggression. Conclusions The current study advanced knowledge of the general aggression model. Most importantly, it reveals that malicious envy, as a type of envy, plays an important mediating role between neuroticism, agreeableness and aggression. Meanwhile, the cross-gender path analysis supports the stability of the mediating role of malicious envy. This finding provides new insights into the intervention of aggression from the perspective of envy.

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Section: The Mediating Role Of Benign/malicious Envymentioning

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How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Jiang

Dong

et al. 2022

BMC Psychol

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“… Crusius and Mussweiler (2012) have argued that envy is incited in an individual when others have what they do not have; this frustration and hostility is socially unacceptable and therefore often repressed or controlled. Once self-control is diminished, the envy-generated impulse to try to own others’ goods may become stronger, resulting in a greater willingness to buy things ( Wu and Chang, 2013 ). Therefore, envy is a significant predictor of online compulsive buying among college students.…”

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Materialism and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social network sites and online compulsive buying among college students

Liu

Gao²,

Jiang³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Upward social comparison on Social Network Sites (SNS) might be positively related to online compulsive buying; however, there is little understanding of the mechanism of this relationship. In this study, we explored the effect of upward social comparison on SNS on online compulsive buying, and whether this effect is mediated by materialism and envy. A total of 568 Chinese undergraduates (mean age = 19.58 years, SD = 1.43) were recruited to complete a survey that included Upward social comparison on SNS Scale, Materialism Scale, Envy Scale, and Online compulsive buying Scale. The results revealed that upward social comparison was positively linked to online compulsive buying. Additionally, materialism and envy completely mediated this relationship. Our findings suggest that upward social comparison has a positive influence on college students’ online compulsive buying and that this influence is formed through a combination of cognitive factors (materialism) and affective factors (envy). This discovery not only clarifies the underlying mechanism but also proposes a potential way of alleviating online compulsive buying.

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“…Envy is defined as an unpleasant feeling experienced by individuals in the process of social comparison with a person or group of persons who possess something we desire, and is expressed as a mixture of inferiority, hostility, and resentment (Parrott & Smith, 1993;Wu & Zhang, 2012;Yang & Zhang, 2009). Drawing on social comparison theory, envy is a social emotion that results from an unfavorable upward social comparison with others (Dunn et al, 2012).…”

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Effects of Users’ Social Comparison and Envy on Malevolent Creativity on Social Network Sites

Zheng,

2023

OJBM

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Most research on creativity focuses on the benefits, with little attention paid to exploring the negative aspects, such as malevolent creativity. Undoubtedly, social networking sites (SNS) are central to social interaction and information sharing in the digital age. However, they simultaneously invite upward social comparison, eliciting envy among users, which leads to diversified behaviors. We argue that it is an essential issue for social comparison and individuals' malevolent creativity on SNS. Integrating social comparison theory with response styles theory, we hypothesized that SNS social comparison is positively related to online malevolent creativity via SNS envy, and its effects of SNS social comparison on SNS envy depend on individuals' rumination. The results support these hypotheses and provide a more nuanced understanding of how upward social comparison impacts individuals' emotional state and creativity. The theoretical contributions and practical implications of this study are discussed.

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Envy: A Social Emotion Characterized by Hostility

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How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Materialism and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social network sites and online compulsive buying among college students

Effects of Users’ Social Comparison and Envy on Malevolent Creativity on Social Network Sites

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