Resentment, envy, schadenfreude, and sympathy:: Effects of own and other's deserved or undeserved status

被引:111
作者
Feather, NT [1 ]
Nairn, K [1 ]
机构
[1] Flinders Univ S Australia, Sch Psychol, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
关键词
resentment; envy; schadenfteude; sympathy; deservingness;
D O I
10.1080/00049530500048672
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
This study used deservingness theory (Feather, 1999) to investigate how perceptions by a low status observer that his or her low status is deserved or undeserved affects the observer's envy and resentment towards a deserving or undeserving high achiever, and schadenfreude and sympathy when the high achiever suffers a subsequent failure. Deservingness was manipulated by varying the amount of effort, high or low, that led to a low achievement or a high achievement. Participants were 197 undergraduates who role-played a deserving or undeserving low performing student. In this role they first responded to a scenario involving either a deserving or undeserving high achiever and then to a subsequent epilogue in which the high achiever suffered failure. Results showed that resentment about the role-player's low performance affected both envy and resentment towards the high achiever, and that both resentment about the high achiever's success and a wish to denigrate the high achiever fuelled schadenfreude about the high achiever's subsequent failure. Schadenfreude was not predicted by envy. Resentment and denigration were negative predictors of sympathy.
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