Resource Scarcity Predicts Women’s Intrasexual Competition: The Role of Trait and State Envy

Arnocky, Steven; Davis, Adam C.; Vaillancourt, Tracy

doi:10.1007/s40806-022-00344-x

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“…When comparing themselves with the envied individual, the envier experiences feelings of being overshadowed and have a decreased self-evaluation, resulting in the impairment of positive emotions and the emergence of negative emotions. For another thing, young women tend to belittle their rivals to compete for some limited resources when experiencing high levels of malicious envy (Arnocky et al, 2022). As a result, they perceive less social support in this state, leading to impaired positive affect.…”

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How does benign/malicious envy impact young women's subjective well‐being in daily life? An investigation of intrapersonal and interpersonal pathway

Xiang

2023

Applied Psych Health & Well

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Although previous cross‐sectional studies have investigated the between‐person correlation between dispositional envy and subjective well‐being, few longitudinal studies have explored the within‐person relationships between state benign/malicious envy and subjective well‐being, as well as the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms involved. This study adopted a diary approach for 14 consecutive days from a sample of 167 young women to investigate the within‐person associations among benign/malicious envy, self‐esteem, perceived social support, and subjective well‐being. The results revealed that benign and malicious envy had opposite effects on subjective well‐being within individuals. Besides, the results indicated that self‐esteem and perceived social support mediated the relationships between benign envy and two dimensions of subjective well‐being (positive affect and life satisfaction) within individuals. Furthermore, self‐esteem played a within‐person mediating role in the relationships between malicious envy and three dimensions of subjective well‐being, whereas perceived social support only served as a within‐person mediator between malicious envy and positive affect. These findings shed light on the distinction between benign envy and malicious envy and help in comprehending the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms through which the two types of envy impact subjective well‐being in daily life.

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How does benign/malicious envy impact young women's subjective well‐being in daily life? An investigation of intrapersonal and interpersonal pathway

Xiang

2023

Applied Psych Health & Well

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“…In contrast, women perceive same-sex rivals as more competitive when they are in resource-rich contexts 38 . Finally, there is evidence that resource scarcity affects females’ competitive attitudes, but levels of envy modulate the direction of the effect 39 . Nonetheless, envy of others’ resources is considered a prime motivator of competitiveness 40 .…”

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Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts

Benenson

Markovits

2023

Sci Rep

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Human males are considered to be more competitive than females. However, females must also compete for resources necessary for their own and their offsprings’ survival. Since females use more indirect forms of competition than males, comparing observable forms of competition may be misleading. One critical driver of competition is resource asymmetry. Since competition occurs primarily within sex, reactions to resource asymmetry with same-sex peers should provide an important measure of competitiveness. We asked 596 married participants, 25–45 years of age with at least one child from three different countries to evaluate how same-sex individuals they know would react to a target individual who had a valuable resource that the same-sex individuals did not have. Half the participants evaluated reactions to same-sex targets, while the other half evaluated reactions to other-sex targets. Participants reported that women would react more negatively than men to resource asymmetry with same-sex targets, but not other-sex targets. These results suggest that women may be even more competitive than men in contexts when important resources related to reproductive success are at stake.

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Intrasexual Mate Competition (Women): Mate Attraction Tactics

Wagstaff Danielle,

Danielle

2023

Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior

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Resource Scarcity Predicts Women’s Intrasexual Competition: The Role of Trait and State Envy

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

How does benign/malicious envy impact young women's subjective well‐being in daily life? An investigation of intrapersonal and interpersonal pathway

How does benign/malicious envy impact young women's subjective well‐being in daily life? An investigation of intrapersonal and interpersonal pathway

Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts

Intrasexual Mate Competition (Women): Mate Attraction Tactics

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