Feeling grateful and envious: adolescents’ narratives of social emotions in identity and social development

Poelker, Katelyn E.; Gibbons, Judith L.; Hughes, Honore M.; Powlishta, Kimberly K.

doi:10.1080/02673843.2015.1067895

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“…Participants who experienced family poverty reported that they were envious of peers’ material possessions, compared their own status to peers, and felt inferior to their peers. This is consistent with findings of a previous study suggesting that social comparisons arising from envious feelings influence low self-esteem in adolescents (Poelker et al, 2016).…”

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Experiences of Family Conflict in Shelter-Residing Runaway Youth: A Phenomenological Study

Noh

Kim²

2020

Journal of Family Issues

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Family conflict is the most significant factor that causes adolescents to run away from home. This study explored the experiences of family conflict from the perspective of Korean runaway youth. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological study using in-depth interviews with nine female runaway youth. Audio-recorded interview data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using the Colaizzi method. We found that the participants had experienced complex family conflicts since early childhood, such as parental conflict and mental health issues, abuse, neglect, lack of parental understanding, and poverty. Participants had negative emotions and coping problems regarding family conflict(s), before leaving home. After running away, they experienced ambivalent feelings, and felt both hatred and compassion towards their parents. Their experiences influenced their thoughts regarding future family relationships. Understanding the viewpoint of runaway youth in terms of family conflict can assist in the development of interventions designed for such youth.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Experiences of Family Conflict in Shelter-Residing Runaway Youth: A Phenomenological Study

Noh

Kim²

2020

Journal of Family Issues

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“…The obtained results can be justified through the lens of individualism-collectivism, which is one of the national culture dimensions distinguished by Hofstede and represent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior that are characteristic of representatives of a given nation (Hofstede, Hofstede, & Minkov, 2010). In terms of envy, individualism-collectivism, generally defined as "the degree of interdependence a society maintains among individuals" (Hofstede, 1984, p. 83), is found to be the most differentiating dimension (Foster, 1972;Poelker, Gibbons, Hughes, & Powlishta, 2016). In collectivistic societies, interpersonal relationships are above the achievement of one's own goals, while the group one belongs to provides support and a sense of security in exchange for a kind of loyalty as well as avoiding conflicts, primarily with members of one's own group.…”

Section: Cross-cultural Differences In Benign and Malicious Envymentioning

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Psychometric properties of the benign and malicious envy scale: Assessment of structure, reliability, and measurement invariance across the United States, Germany, Russia, and Poland

2020

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The Benign and Malicious Envy Scale is a promising self-report measure forming a counterpoint to the unidimensional approach to the assessment of dispositional envy. The goals of the present study were to examine the reliability, structure, and measurement equivalence of the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale across four independent groups from the United States, Germany, Russia, and Poland. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the structure of the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale is twodimensional and its measurement is reliable. Moreover, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, supplemented by alignment optimization, revealed that the scale is invariant by country across all factors regardless of whether a linguistic distinction between the two envy types in the respective language exists. The results speak to the current debate about whether envy should be conceptualized as unitary or as an emotion that occurs in two distinct forms, supporting the latter view. Additionally, countrylevel differences in envy point to cultural differences which merit further research.

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“…In addition, envy of others' possessions was more closely related to psychological disorders than nonmaterial envy (González Calderón et al, 2011). U.S. 14 -16-year-olds reported being envious most often of material things (e.g., cell phones, clothes, shoes) and occasionally of academic and athletic performance (Poelker, Gibbons, Hughes, & Powlishta, 2016).…”

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“…Comparisons with others, especially peers, are critical for adolescents during identity development, in part because they inform how adolescents view themselves (Smith & Kim, 2007). Adolescents in the United States noted that envy experiences often left them feeling inferior (Poelker et al, 2016).…”

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Envy, Gratitude, and Well-Being Among Guatemalan Adolescents With Scarce Economic Resources

Poelker

Gibbons

Maxwell

et al. 2017

International Perspectives in Psychology

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Adolescents’ social and emotional lives reflect and inform their well-being. Yet, we know little about how social emotions, like gratitude and envy, are expressed in social relationships and shape well-being among adolescents living outside of wealthy, minority world settings. In many parts of the world, including Guatemala, poverty and economic hardship are among the most common challenges of adolescents. In an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, Study 1 explored how Guatemalan youth living with scarce resources experience and respond to gratitude and envy. Interviews with 22 Guatemalan adolescents ( Mean age = 14.55 years, SD = .74, 59% girls) about their experiences with envy and gratitude were coded based on Auerbach and Silverstein’s (2003) approach. Findings revealed that envy ignited anger and rifts in close relationships with friends and family. Conversely, gratitude was rooted in reciprocity and often motivated youth to act kindly on another’s behalf. In Study 2, adolescents ( N = 64, Mean age = 14.15, SD = 1.05, 55% girls) completed locally adapted measures of envy, gratitude, and life satisfaction. A multiple regression analysis revealed that envy was associated with lower and gratitude with higher life satisfaction, consistent with studies in other cultural contexts. In sum, the use of locally developed measures of the social emotions envy and gratitude revealed the expected relations with well-being, negative for envy and positive for gratitude. For Guatemalan youth facing daily hardships, discouraging envy and fostering gratitude may help to boost well-being and nurture positive close relationships.

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Feeling grateful and envious: adolescents’ narratives of social emotions in identity and social development

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Experiences of Family Conflict in Shelter-Residing Runaway Youth: A Phenomenological Study

Experiences of Family Conflict in Shelter-Residing Runaway Youth: A Phenomenological Study

Psychometric properties of the benign and malicious envy scale: Assessment of structure, reliability, and measurement invariance across the United States, Germany, Russia, and Poland

Envy, Gratitude, and Well-Being Among Guatemalan Adolescents With Scarce Economic Resources

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