An Empirical Study Of Jealousy Emotions In Different Individuals' Attention Bias

In the fierce competition of modern society, the individual is always intentionally or unintentionally to compare with others, envy emotions generated is more common. Envy is an unpleasant feeling in the process of social comparison, when individuals have found others what they crave when some of the advantages of experience. It can drive people in different ways to make up for the narrow, someone have the courage to face the strong competition and race to the top, whereas someone was full of resentment, hostility toward an attempt to pull down others. Current research abroad have detailed classification of envy. There are two types:benign envy of goodwill that individuals desire for have another advantageeager and with self-improvement tendency, so envy have actively promoting effects on individuals, malicious envy contains slander others advantages, hope others lose the advantage and, even cause the tendency to attack others of hostility. In view of the social and cultural differences, foreign scholars are not fully able to explain the phenomenon of envy under Chinese cultural background, and Chinese scholars on the envy of the study is not much, especially on empirical study. So on jealousy research is necessary in our country, special classifying jealousy research is beneficial to better understand and identify different types of envy, so as to prevent or reduce the negative destruction of malicious envy, guidance and the use of aggressive behavior of benign envy.Envy is closely related with attention. In this paper, from the perspective of two envy types, discuss benign and malicious envy existence and their attentional bias mechanism, specific studies are as follows:Study 1 employ the questionnaire survey method, establish the relationship between foreign Envy Type Assessment Questionnaire and domestic Benign Envy Scale, foreign Bringle Self-reported Jealousy scale, make sure that malicious envy and benign envy are independent of each other. The results show that:Benign envy score of Envy Type Assessment Questionnaire is positively related to inspirational motivation, emotion adjustment, behavior intention of domestic Benign Envy Scale. Malicious envy scores of Envy Type Assessment Questionnaire is positively related to score of Bringle Self-reported Jealousy scale(social competition). There is a significant differences between Benign envy and malicious envy on thoughts, feelings, motivation goals, behavior tendency, actions these five areas, preliminary confirmed the existence of two kinds of envy and its independence.Study 2 in order to further illustrate benign and malicious envy independently of one another, to investigate the attention bias of the different type of envy person. Study 2 included two experiments, respectively using the words and pictures as experimental material, the exogenous cueing paradigm to research college students' mechanism of attention bias under the different types of information. Experimental hypothesis benign envy person have positive self-concept, optimistic characteristics, and be more sensitive to positive information; and malicious envy person those who on the contrary, they have a negative self-concept, hostility resentment characteristics,and be more sensitive to negative information. Results show that benign envy of positive images showed attention bias-attention alert, and at the same time show the difficulty in disengaging from negative pictures; malicious envy those who are on the negative information occurs attentional bias, performance for the negative image of alert and avoidance tendencies.This study systematically investigated two types of envy and its mechanism of attentional bias, but also broaden envy cognitive study, provides a theoretical basis for training malicious envy persons.