Liu Shuangqiang, Xiang Yanhui, Li Xiaojun
Department of Psychology, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Tao Xingzhi Research Institute, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, China.
J Ment Health. 2025 Aug;34(4):362-371. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2426996. Epub 2025 Jan 6.
Prior research has shown a strong association between anxiety and envy (i.e. benign/malicious envy). However, empirical evidence is lacking regarding their predictive connection.
To examine how benign/malicious envy impacts anxiety and how anxiety affects both types of envy respectively from a developmental viewpoint.
In Study 1, a three-wave longitudinal survey of 998 teenagers was conducted to examine the link between trait anxiety and trait benign/malicious envy. Cross-lagged panel analyses were used. In Study 2, 117 adolescents engaged in an experience-sampling method study to track their state anxiety and state benign/malicious envy. Hierarchical linear models were used.
Study 1 showed a positive bidirectional relationship between trait malicious envy and trait anxiety, a negative reciprocity between trait benign envy and trait anxiety, constituting a circular effect across time respectively. Study 2 supported the results of Study 1. The relationship between variables at the state level was consistent with that at the trait level.
Benign envy may help alleviate anxiety, while malicious envy has the opposite effect. These findings offer a reliable framework for comprehending the connection between envy and anxiety, which extends current knowledge about the development of such relations across adolescent.
先前的研究表明焦虑与嫉妒（即良性/恶意嫉妒）之间存在紧密联系。然而，关于它们的预测关系缺乏实证证据。
从发展的角度研究良性/恶意嫉妒如何影响焦虑，以及焦虑如何分别影响这两种类型的嫉妒。
在研究1中，对998名青少年进行了三波纵向调查，以检验特质焦虑与特质良性/恶意嫉妒之间的联系。采用交叉滞后面板分析。在研究2中，117名青少年参与了经验取样法研究，以追踪他们的状态焦虑和状态良性/恶意嫉妒。采用分层线性模型。
研究1表明特质恶意嫉妒与特质焦虑之间存在正向双向关系，特质良性嫉妒与特质焦虑之间存在负向互惠关系，分别在时间上构成循环效应。研究2支持了研究1的结果。状态水平上变量之间的关系与特质水平上的关系一致。
良性嫉妒可能有助于减轻焦虑，而恶意嫉妒则有相反的效果。这些发现为理解嫉妒与焦虑之间的联系提供了一个可靠的框架，扩展了目前关于青少年期此类关系发展的知识。
