How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

Li, Qingyin; Xiang, Yu‐Tao

doi:10.1002/pmh.1492

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“…Therefore, these three personalities may be negatively correlated with envy. However, benign envy has a positive side [35,36]. Based on this, conscientiousness, openness to experience and extraversion also may be negatively correlated with malicious envy and positively related to benign envy.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…As a result, people with a higher degree of malicious envy are more likely to engage in aggressive behaviors. In contrast, people with higher benign envy are tend to experience less hostility, resentment, and dejection [23,25,30,36], thus these subjects are less likely to engage in aggressive behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Benign envy is also a frustrating experience, but its motivation is to improve oneself [23,30,34]. Therefore, benign envy has a positive side [35,36].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It took them about 40 min to fill out these questionnaires. It should be noted that the data for this study were from an ongoing project named "Philosophy and Social Science Project of Hunan Province of China (18YBA324)", some of the data have been used in previous studies [35,36,48]. After completing the questionnaire, all the participants were paid 30 yuan.…”

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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

confidence: 99%

“…Benign envy is also a frustrating experience, but its motivation is to improve oneself [23,30,34]. Therefore, benign envy has a positive side [35,36].…”

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

Jiang

Dong

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BMC Psychol

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“…Since hubristic pride is an emotion based on beliefs about one’s own abilities ( Tracy and Robins, 2004 , 2007 ), it is easily triggered by an individual’s cognitions that abilities lead to i-deals. Previous research shows that hubristic pride can be stimulated by childhood maltreatment ( Li and Xiang, 2020 ), which in turn is associated with more abusive behaviors ( Yeung and Shen, 2019 ) and antisocial behavior ( Stanger et al, 2021 ).…”

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The effect of i-deals on employees’ unethical behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of hubristic pride and grandiose narcissism

Liu

Zhang²,

Xu³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous challenges for organizations and employees. Due to the effectiveness of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals for short) in management practices, more and more organizations use this human resource management tool to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, whether there are potential risks or negative effects of i-deals in the COVID-19 pandemic environment is not very clear. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, we proposed that i-deals may foment focal employees’ unethical behavior by triggering their hubristic pride, and such process may be moderated by their trait of grandiose narcissism. We conducted a survey during the COVID-19 outbreak and tested our hypotheses with 492 samples from Shandong Province, China. Consistent with predictions, we found a positive relationship between i-deals and hubristic pride, which, in turn, increased their unethical behavior. And the relationship between i-deals and unethical behavior was mediated by hubristic pride. Furthermore, grandiose narcissism strengthened the positive relationship between i-deals and hubristic pride, as well as the indirect effect of i-deals on unethical behavior via hubristic pride. Our findings contributed to the literature on i-deals and provided guidance for organizations to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The bidirectional relationship between benign/malicious envy and subjective well‐being in adolescents: The mediating effect of self‐esteem

Liu,

Miao,

et al. 2024

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionSubjective well‐being, an important index for measuring mental health, is presently declining among junior high school students. Envy, one of their common emotions, is inextricably linked to subjective well‐being. Based on the Dual Envy Theory, our research explores the bidirectional relationship between benign‐malicious envy and subjective well‐being. The mediating role of self‐esteem, as well as the related gender differences, is examined.MethodsChinese middle school students (n = 1566, boys 50.3%, age = 13.96 ± 0.88 years old) were assessed at two time points over a 3‐month interval. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the longitudinal relationships among the variables.Results(1) Cross‐lagged analysis showed a positive bidirectional relationship between benign envy and subjective well‐being and a negative bidirectional relationship between malicious envy and subjective well‐being in the total sample. However, the path from T1 subjective well‐being to T2 malicious envy in boys was not significant. (2) Self‐esteem mediated the relationship between both benign and malicious envy and subjective well‐being among both boys and girls. A Wald chi‐square test showed that T2 self‐esteem was a stronger predictor of T2 benign envy in boys than in girls.ConclusionThe results reveal a virtuous cycle of benign envy and subjective well‐being, and a vicious cycle of malicious envy and subjective well‐being, while emphasizing the role of self‐esteem in this process. Gender differences were also noted. These findings have important implications for improving the subjective well‐being of secondary school students and exploring the positive effects of envy.

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How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

Cited by 14 publications

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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

The effect of i-deals on employees’ unethical behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of hubristic pride and grandiose narcissism

The bidirectional relationship between benign/malicious envy and subjective well‐being in adolescents: The mediating effect of self‐esteem

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