Greenier Keegan D
Mercer University, Macon, GA, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2018 Jun;121(3):445-458. doi: 10.1177/0033294117745562. Epub 2017 Nov 29.
This study sought to investigate how individual differences are related to schadenfreude (pleasure derived from another's misfortune) by replicating past findings and extending them to additional personality traits. Because most past research on schadenfreude has relied heavily on the use of reactions to hypothetical scenarios, an attempt was made to demonstrate external validity by also including a reaction to a live event (confederate misfortune). For the scenarios, schadenfreude was positively correlated with the Dark Triad and just world beliefs; negatively correlated with empathy and agreeableness; and uncorrelated with dispositional envy, self-esteem, or the remaining Big Five traits. For the live event, no personality traits were correlated with schadenfreude, suggesting responses to hypothetical situations may not be representative of real-life schadenfreude events.
本研究旨在通过重复以往的研究结果并将其扩展到其他人格特质，来探究个体差异与幸灾乐祸（从他人的不幸中获得的愉悦）之间的关系。由于以往关于幸灾乐祸的大多数研究都严重依赖于对假设情景的反应，因此还尝试通过纳入对真实事件（同盟者的不幸）的反应来证明外部效度。对于情景而言，幸灾乐祸与黑暗三性格和公正世界信念呈正相关；与同理心和宜人性呈负相关；与特质性嫉妒、自尊或其余的大五人格特质不相关。对于真实事件，没有人格特质与幸灾乐祸相关，这表明对假设情景的反应可能无法代表现实生活中的幸灾乐祸事件。
