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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2019. Vol. 12, no. 2, 87–97
https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2019120207
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

The relationship of envy and characteristics of objective and subjective economic well-being

 
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Abstract

The relationship between envy and the characteristics of economic well-being of the individual is an important basis for the social behavior it implements. The article studies the relationship between the envy of the individual and the characteristics of the objective and subjective economic status. The study involved 196 people (44% of men) aged M=28.6; SD=8.5. The technique used for the diagnosis of envy personality and subject areas of envy (T.V. Beskova), subjective economic well-being (V.A. Khashchenko), the scale of economic status (A.L. Zhuravlev and A.B. Kupreychenko). It is shown that the relationship of income with envy is limited to several areas — health, recreation, material wealth, professional success (negative). The lack of financial resources and the severity of negative emotional States in connection with financial and material problems are associated with envy of a large number of objects of possession of Others. As a result of structural modeling it is established that satisfaction of material needs is a mediator of connection of envy and economic anxiety and financial deprivation.

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Keywords: personality, envy, income, subjective economic status, material well-being, envy-dislike, envy-despondency

Journal rubric: Social Psychology

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2019120207

Funding. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research , grant № 18-013-00134 А

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For citation: Shamionov, R.M. (2019). The relationship of envy and characteristics of objective and subjective economic well-being. Experimental Psychology (Russia), 12(2), 87–97. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2019120207

© Shamionov R.M., 2019

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Rail M. Shamionov, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Psychology of Education and Development, Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical, and Special Education, Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, Saratov Military Order of Zhukov, Red Banner Institute of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, Saratov, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8358-597X, e-mail: shamionov@mail.ru

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