When I Hate to Follow You: Hate-Following, Envy, and Schadenfreude on Instagram
Cleoputri Yusainy,
Isma Adila,
Ayu Kusumastuti
et al.
Abstract:Popular media has documented an increasing interest in the phenomenon of “hate-following”. The current study explored the utility of hate-following motive, independent of hate, within the framework of dual approach of envy and schadenfreude. Undergraduate Instagram’s users (n = 560, 73.39% females; M age =21.14, SD = 2.04) were asked to recall an envy episode and filled in measures of state envy, hate-following motive, and hate, then read a schadenfreude scenario and completed measure of schadenfreude. We foun… Show more
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