Cognitive behavioural responses to envy: development of a new measure - Oct 2019 Chalder et al

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Abstract
Background:
Envy is depicted as motivating destructive desires and actions intended to spoil or destroy that which is envied.

Aim:
To develop a new valid and reliable measure of malicious envy (C-BRES), which included items representing the cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses empirically associated with this emotion.

Method:
A total of 203 adults completed the new 22-item cognitive and behavioural responses to envy scale (C-BRES). Exploratory factor analysis was carried out to test for reliability and internal consistency of the C-BRES. Evidence towards the concurrent construct validity (convergent and discriminant) of the C-BRES was assessed through correlations with the Dispositional envy scale and other measures of psychosocial outcomes empirically linked to envy.

Results:
Factor analysis for categorical data identified five dimensions of envy, namely: injustice, hostility, malicious action tendencies, malicious feelings and behavioural responses. The reliability indices of the five factors and the total scale were satisfactory (>0.85). Evidence towards the concurrent construct validity (convergent and discriminant) of the C-BRES is reported. In particular, envy was associated with higher levels of depression, psychoticism, neuroticism, anger and lower levels of self-esteem and quality of life.

Conclusion:
All findings support the psychometric adequacy of the C-BRES.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...-new-measure/B5FB2609EFAF7A1BDEC2C243B74488EF

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1017/S1352465819000614

where's that pointed stick @Lucibee
(interesting that they cite Eysenck)
 
Sly Saint said:
(interesting that they cite Eysenck)
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I think my brain has gone soggy.

I looked at the word Eysenck and my brain read:
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Eeyore.

How could that happen. The words don't look even vaguely the same.
 
In particular, envy was associated with higher levels of depression, psychoticism, neuroticism, anger and lower levels of self-esteem and quality of life.
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That really does not suggest a competent measure. At all. Envy is a well-known trait of the very rich and the ordinary rich, always looking at what others have and wanting more. It serves as a status to outdo and make others red with envy. Definitely not people who have low self-esteem or quality of life.

Sounds a lot like typical cherry-picking that Chalder produces, seemingly at a pretty high churn rate.

About Eysenck:
Psychoticism is one of the three traits used by the psychologist Hans Eysenck in his P–E–N model model of personality. Psychoticism is a personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility.
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The PEN model is a biological theory of personality developed by influential psychologist Hans Eysenck (1916-1997). The model focusses on three broad personality factors: psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism (PEN).
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I have no idea how someone can call that a biological theory of personality. Sounds like a lot of pseudoscience nonsense.
 
Envy is depicted as motivating destructive desires and actions intended to spoil or destroy that which is envied.
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Eh? The definition of envy according to Collins is
"Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has".

Since when does it have anything to do with wanting to destroy that which is envied? that's something else. That's malice or whatever, you can have one without the other.
I'm certain of this because I envy the health and the lives of many people I love, but that doesn't mean I want to wreck them or destroy them and I resent the inference that it would.

So now common emotions are being redefined are they? twisted to become what they want them to be rather than what they actually are... was doing it to a disease not enough?
 
rvallee said:
That really does not suggest a competent measure. At all. Envy is a well-known trait of the very rich and the ordinary rich, always looking at what others have and wanting more. It serves as a status to outdo and make others red with envy. Definitely not people who have low self-esteem or quality of life.

Sounds a lot like typical cherry-picking that Chalder produces, seemingly at a pretty high churn rate.

About Eysenck:


I have no idea how someone can call that a biological theory of personality. Sounds like a lot of pseudoscience nonsense.
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It's the new fashion to say that people struggling with financial hardship are just jealous of the rich. Rather than, you know, just wanting a reasonable quality of life for themselves and their family.
 
JemPD said:
Eh? The definition of envy according to Collins is
"Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has".

Since when does it have anything to do with wanting to destroy that which is envied? that's something else. That's malice or whatever, you can have one without the other.
I'm certain of this because I envy the health and the lives of many people I love, but that doesn't mean I want to wreck them or destroy them and I resent the inference that it would.
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This. There is a critical difference between wanting to also have what somebody else has, and wanting to deny it to them because you don't have it.

So now common emotions are being redefined are they? twisted to become what they want them to be rather than what they actually are... was doing it to a disease not enough?
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Useful source of power and income.
 
Interestingly Wiki says this about envy

Psychologists have recently suggested that there are two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy—malicious envy being proposed as a sick force that ruins a person and his/her mind and causes the envious person to blindly want the "hero" to suffer; on the other hand, benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force that causes the person to aspire to be as good as the "hero"—but only if benign envy is used in a right way.

It does also suggest that according to Russell

Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his or her envy, Russell explained, but that person may also wish to inflict misfortune on others, in forms of emotional abuse and violent acts of criminality.

Words mean what you want them to mean (Humpty Dumpty).

 
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JemPD said:
Eh? The definition of envy according to Collins is
"Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has".

Since when does it have anything to do with wanting to destroy that which is envied? that's something else. That's malice or whatever, you can have one without the other.
I'm certain of this because I envy the health and the lives of many people I love, but that doesn't mean I want to wreck them or destroy them and I resent the inference that it would.

So now common emotions are being redefined are they? twisted to become what they want them to be rather than what they actually are... was doing it to a disease not enough?
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Sounds like the definition comes from the same general sources as the P-E-N thing from Eysenck, rooted in simplistic explanations of pathological behavior rather than normal human behavior. Redefining common words seems almost universal in psychosomatic medicine and psychobabble in general.
 
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