Intial Development of Islamic Envy Management Scale

Abstract

Islam discourages the believers f rom keeping envious feelings in their hearts. In modern psychology, en\Y i s Jinked with a group of negative mental health outcomes, such as depression, anxiety, and aggressive behaviors. This study i s an attempt to develop a scale o f enlp management based on the teaching o f al-Ghazali, one of a Muslim scholar known as Hujjat a/-Islam, The Proof o f Islam. The Benign and Malicious Envy Scale (BeMaSJ developed b y Lange & Crusius (2015) was administered to 200 Muslim students of on Islamic higher learning institution in Malaysia to evaluate their benign and malicious tendencies towards emy. Additionally. the Islamic Envy Management Scale (IEMS) was developed in accordance with a/-Ghazali's proposition on how t o eltminate envious feelings among Muslim adults and wasadministered to the sample. Principal Components Analysis yielded two factors, namely knowledge and action, with a total variance extracted of 55.5%. The result.ant scale had a Cronbach Alpha o/0.7. The scale had showed a significant positive correlation with the benign envy and a significant negative correlation with malicious envy.