scholarly journals Influence of Group Identification on Malicious and Benign Envy: A Cross-Sectional Developmental Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Gaviria ◽  
Laura Quintanilla ◽  
María José Navas
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
Emotional Display ◽  
Benign Envy ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Envy is the result of a social comparison that shows us a negative image of ourselves. The present study addresses the effect of the context of group comparison and group identification on children's expression of this emotion. Through different stories, participants aged between 6 and 11 years were exposed to four contexts of upward social comparison in which they had to adopt the role of the disadvantaged character. From their emotional responses and their decisions in a resource allocation task, three response profiles were created: malicious envy, benign envy, and non-envy. Although we found important differences between verbal and behavioral responses, the results showed greater envy, both malicious and benign, when the envied was an out-group. On the other hand, when the envied belonged to the in-group and competed with a member of the out-group, malicious but not benign envy practically disappeared. With age, envious responses decreased, and non-envious responses increased. The role of social identity in the promotion and inhibition of envy is discussed, as well as the acquisition of emotional display rules in the benign envy and non-envy profiles.

scholarly journals Does employee envy trigger the positive outcomes at workplace? A study of upward social comparison, envy and employee performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haris Khan ◽  
Ayesha Noor
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
Benign Envy ◽  
Upward Social Comparison ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

The purpose of this research was to investigate the outcomes of envy in the workplace and the moderating role of perceived organizational support. Data was collected from 270 employees of the telecom industry. The cross-sectional research was conducted, and the data was collected through survey questionnaires from employees hailing from private Telecom companies in Pakistan. Results showed that upward social comparison initiates benign and malicious envy which, in turn, affects employee performance. Benign envy results in enhancing the employee performance whereas malicious envy shows no relationship with employee performance. By paying attention to supporting the employees, malicious envy can enhance employee performance.

A Cross-Cultural Study on the Effects of Envy-Evoking Ads

2022 ◽  
pp. 147078532110638
Author(s):  
Sowon Ahn ◽  
Myung-Soo Jo ◽  
Emine Sarigollu ◽  
Chang Soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
Chinese Study ◽  
Benign Envy ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Ads often feature celebrities or others similar to the target viewer and thereby evoke envy. Envy occurs when people make an upward social comparison, and evoked envy can be either benign or malicious. The authors propose that people with different self-construals feel different degrees of benign and malicious envy depending on who is being envied: a celebrity or a similar other. Three studies were conducted comparing Americans to Koreans (Study 1), Americans to the Chinese (Study 2), and Koreans with different self-construals (Study 3). The results showed that people with high independence showed less benign envy toward the celebrity ad than toward the similar others ad, while people with low independence showed the opposite pattern. People with high interdependence showed less malicious envy toward the celebrity ad than toward the similar others ad, while people with low interdependence showed the opposite pattern.

Envy and Social Comparison

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels van de Ven ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. We explain what envy is, and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. We provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy, possible consequences of envy, and the responses to being envied by others. In each of these areas there are clear links to research on social comparison, and research on envy has greatly benefitted from insights from the social comparison literature. Given the surge in research on envy in the last decade, we hope that the findings on envy can also inspire those investigating social comparisons.

Envy and Social Comparison

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-250
Author(s):  
Niels van de Ven ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. This chapter explains what envy is and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. The authors provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy, possible consequences of envy, and the responses to being envied by others. In each of these areas, there are clear links to research on social comparison and research on envy has greatly benefited from insights from the social comparison literature. Given the surge in research on envy in the last decade, the authors hope that the findings on envy inspires those investigating social comparisons.

scholarly journals Envy and Environmental Decision Making: The Mediating Role of Self-Control

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 639
Author(s):  
Xinni Wei ◽  
Feng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Environmental Decisions ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
Benign Envy ◽  
The Impact

Emotions have strong impacts on decision making, yet research on the association between social interpersonal emotion and environmental decisions is limited. The present study uses experimental manipulation and cross-sectional investigation to examine how envy state and personality trait envy influence environmental actions. In Study 1, participants were manipulated to elicit benign and malicious envy, and it was found that benign envy acts as an antecedent of pro-environmental behavior, while malicious envy could contribute to behavior harmful to the environment. Study 2 replicated the results of Study 1 and examined the mediator of self-control through a correlational study. Consequently, people who are high in malicious envy tend to engage in more environmentally harmful activities rather than living a sustainable life, while dispositional benign envy could significantly predict pro-environmental behavior. Moreover, the link between dispositional malicious envy and environmental behavior can be explained by trait self-control, while the mediating effect was silent in dispositional benign envy. The findings shed new light on the impact of social interpersonal emotion on making environmental decisions and its related psychological mechanisms.

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