SUBJECTIVE UNFAIRNESS AND ENVIOUS HOSTILITY

主观不公平和嫉妒敌意

• 批准号: 3430335
• 负责人: RICHARD H SMITH
• 金额: $ 5.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-04-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3430335
• 关键词: angers; coping; depression; emotions; judgment; questionnaires; self concept; statistics /biometry

The aim of the proposed research is to test the empirically unexamined hypothesis that the hostile feelings typically part of strong envy result from the envious person believing that the unflattering difference is unfair. As hostile feelings are a spontaneous response to felt injustice, the presence of such unfairness beliefs can explain these feelings. It will be argued that the kind of unfairness beliefs occurring in cases of envious hostility, unlike the unsanctioned character, although the envious person may nonetheless feel justified in these beliefs. In addition, it will be argued that without such unfairness beliefs, envious feelings will have a depressive rather than hostile quality. First, using correlational methods, subjects' assessments of the salient affective and situational aspects of their experiences, will be analyzed in terms of the factors related to the hostile and depressive aspects of these experiences. Second, subjects hostile responses to manipulated envy-evoking stimuli are hypothesized to depend on their prior beliefs about the fairness of unflattering social comparisons. Depressive responses, in contrast, are hypothesized to depend on beliefs of personal inferiority. The proposed research is part of a larger research program aimed at furthering an understanding of social comparison processes in general. Envy is a particularly important emotion to study because it signifies how successfully people are coping with unflattering social comparisons. Such coping appears highly predictive of a person's mental health, as is suggested by recent work on the social comparison determinants of self- esteem and depression. In particular, the problem of explaining the hostile component of envy is important because these kinds of feelings have great potential to hamper social interaction and to create personal unhappiness. Understanding how some individuals can use unflattering social comparisons as a basis for more constructive, emulative impulses whereas others seem overcome by destructive, hateful feelings is an important theoretical and applied social problem.

拟议研究的目的是检验未经实证检验的 假设敌对情绪通常是强烈嫉妒的一部分 从嫉妒的人认为不讨人喜欢的区别是 不公平了 因为敌意是对感受到的不公正的一种自发反应， 这种不公平信念的存在可以解释这些感觉。 它 将被认为，这种不公平的信念发生在案件中， 嫉妒的敌意，不像未经批准的性格，虽然嫉妒 尽管如此，一个人可能会觉得这些信念是合理的。 此外还 有人会说，如果没有这种不公平的信念，嫉妒的感觉将 有一种压抑而不是敌对的品质。 首先，使用相关 方法，受试者对突出的情感和情境的评估 他们的经验方面，将分析的因素， 与这些经历的敌对和抑郁方面有关。 第二，受试者对操纵的引起嫉妒的刺激的敌对反应是 假设依赖于他们先前对公平性的信念， 不讨人喜欢的社会比较 相反，抑郁的反应是 假设依赖于个人自卑的信念。 拟议的研究是一个更大的研究计划的一部分， 进一步理解社会比较过程。 嫉妒是一种特别重要的情感，因为它意味着 人们成功地应对了不讨人喜欢的社会比较。 等 应对似乎高度预测一个人的心理健康，因为 最近关于自我的社会比较决定因素的研究表明， 自尊和抑郁 特别是，解释 嫉妒中的敌意成分很重要，因为这种感觉 很有可能妨碍社会交往， 不快乐 了解一些人如何使用不讨好 社会比较作为更有建设性的、竞争性冲动的基础 而另一些人似乎被破坏性的仇恨情绪所征服， 重要的理论和应用社会问题。