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Features of subjective well-being of subjects of envy and rivalry
Russian Psychological Journal ISSN 1812-1853 · eISSN 2411-5789 · Russian Psychological Society
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Social psychology Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)

Features of subjective well-being of subjects of envy and rivalry

  • Татьяна Викторовна Бескова Институт социального образования (филиал) Российского государственного социального университета
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    the head of the department of the social psychology and pedagogics of Institute of social psychology and pedagogics of social education (affiliate) of Russian State Social University

  • Раиль Мунирович Шамионов Pedagogical Institute of Saratovskii State University named after N.G. Chernishevskii
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    the head of the department of the educational psychology of Pedagogical Institute  of Saratovskii State University named after  N.G. Chernishevskii

Abstract

In the article there are analyzed features of interrelations of subjective well-being with envious relation of personality and its disposition to a rivalry strategy. There are revealed essential distinctions in considered interrelations: the tendency to rivalry is interconnected with general satisfaction in the basic spheres of the subject’s life activity on cognitive level; disposition to envy, on the contrary, correlates with dissatisfaction in cognitive and emotional levels. There are revealed basic strategies of superiority leveling, determined by negative result of social comparison in correlation with considered phenomena of envy and rivalry. There are revealed features of subjective well-being in groups with various strategies of leveling of superiority of the other in significant spheres.

Keywords

  • envy
  • rivalry
  • ubjective well-being
  • social comparison

How to Cite

Features of subjective well-being of subjects of envy and rivalry. (2011). Russian Psychological Journal, 8(2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2011.2.1