The interaction of self-esteem and self-efficacy influencing malicious envy

• Main Authors: Li, Alexadra L., Lim, Eric Darryl N., Sy, Samantha A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Envy; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7295
• Institution: De La Salle University

Envy is commonly known as a person's desire to eliminate disparity. Earlier studies have found out that there are two common types of envy. These are the malicious envy and benign envy. In malicious envy, the envious person think up of ways how to destroy the other individual whereas the benign envy encourages the envious person to do better and to exceed his or her normal performance in school or at work. Because of envy, an individual's self-perception of himself or herself can be distorted. Some examples of self-perceptions are self-esteem and self-efficacy. Self-esteem is a sense of self-worth to an individual and an expression through the number of achievement one has. With self-efficay, a person has complete confidence on himself that he can produce a desired outcome. In order to find out whether having a high or low level of self-efficacy and self-esteem cause one's level of malicious envy, the group handed out surveys to three hundred twenty seven (327) individuals inside and outside of De La Salle University. The survey questionnaire consists of three (3) parts: The Rosenberg Scale for self-esteem, The General Self-efficacy Scale, and the Adopted Envy Scale of Malone. Results indicate that an individual's rating for self-esteem will explain enviousness of a person. The connection between envy and self-efficacy is encountered when the self-efficacy of an individual is low.