How child maltreatment impacts internalized/externalized aggression among Chinese adolescents from perspectives of social comparison and the general aggression model

He, Nina; Xiang, Yu‐Tao

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105024

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“…However, women have higher levels of benign envy than men. This is supports by recently published research [41] that girls are less likely to experience feelings of hostility and depression and more likely to experience benign envy during upward comparison. However, cross-gender path analysis found that there is no gender difference in the above variables.…”

Section: Gender Differencesupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Neuroticism individuals may produce more hostile and painful negative emotions [9,38]. Individuals generally tend to make upward social comparisons, and if they perceive their status as threatened, neuroticism individuals are more likely to experience malicious envy [39,40], which may be associated with aggression [41].…”

Section: The Mediating Role Of Benign/malicious Envymentioning

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How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Jiang

Dong

et al. 2022

BMC Psychol

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Background Prior studies have indicated the link between the Big Five personality traits and aggression. Based on the general aggression model, the purpose of this study is to reveal the formation mechanism of aggression from the people’s internal emotional perspective. Envy is a typical negative emotion that can be divided into benign/malicious envy. Therefore, we aim to explore the intrinsic role of benign/malicious envy within the Big Five personality traits in its connection to aggression. Methods We recruited 839 participants [229 men (27.29%) and 610 women (72.71%); mean age ± SD = 19.45 ± 2.39] who we tested with the NEO Personality Inventory, the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale, and the Aggression Questionnaire. Results The results of suggested that neuroticism was significantly and positively associated with aggression, while agreeableness was negatively related to aggression. Moreover, mediation analysis revealed that malicious envy works both in the relationship of neuroticism-aggression and agreeableness-aggression. Conclusions The current study advanced knowledge of the general aggression model. Most importantly, it reveals that malicious envy, as a type of envy, plays an important mediating role between neuroticism, agreeableness and aggression. Meanwhile, the cross-gender path analysis supports the stability of the mediating role of malicious envy. This finding provides new insights into the intervention of aggression from the perspective of envy.

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Section: Gender Differencesupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: The Mediating Role Of Benign/malicious Envymentioning

confidence: 99%

How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Jiang

Dong

et al. 2022

BMC Psychol

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“…Further, a study confirmed these relationships in a sample of Western adolescents [ 27 ]. Additionally, a meta-analysis also confirmed the relationships between adverse childhood experiences and resilience [ 28 ].…”

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Resilience and Self-Esteem Mediated Associations between Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Aggression in Chinese College Students

Chen

Jiang

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Behavioral Sciences

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Although associations between physical or sexual abuse and aggression have been mainly explored, relationships and pathways between childhood emotional maltreatment and aggression need further exploration, particularly in the Chinese cultural context. This study aimed to explore the associations between childhood emotional maltreatment and aggression and to examine the mediating effects of resilience and self-esteem on those associations. Data were obtained from a convenience sampling of 809 (aged 17–23) college students from three Chinese universities in December 2021, which was approved by the ethics committee of Beijing Normal University, China. All participants completed measures of childhood emotional maltreatment, aggression, resilience, and self-esteem. The results showed that childhood emotional maltreatment was positively associated with aggression (r = 0.41, p < 0.01), and it was negatively associated with resilience (r = −0.56, p < 0.01) and self-esteem (r = −0.10, p < 0.01). Regarding the mediation processes, resilience and self-esteem partially mediated the relationships between childhood emotional maltreatment and aggression. These findings underscore the importance of enhancing levels of resilience and self-esteem in interventions designed to reduce aggression of college students who were emotionally maltreated in childhood.

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“…Example items include "Envying others encourages me to finish my purposes" for surveying BE and "I wish that better people forfeit their advantage" for weighing ME. The Chinese version of the BeMaS has acceptable reliability and validity in Chinese college students [27,29] and Chinese adolescents [30]. In the present examination, the Cronbach alpha index of BE and ME subscale were 0.71 and 0.85 at T1, and 0.82 and 0.84 at T2, respectively.…”

Section: Benign Envy and Malicious Envymentioning

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Longitudinal Relationship between Gratitude and Benign/Malicious Envy: Evidence from a Cross-Lagged Analysis

Zhang¹,

Yang²

2022

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

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Though prior research has identified that gratitude is associated with benign/malicious envy (BeMaS). The purpose of this study was to explore the causal relationship between gratitude and BeMaS among Chinese adolescents. The two-wave study, in which 906 adolescents participated, includes measurements of gratitude and BeMaS. We employed the structural equation models to test the cross-lagged effect between trait gratitude and BeMaS. The results showed that gratitude could positively predict benign envy and could negatively predict malicious envy. Besides, there was no evidence for the reverse or reciprocal relationships between gratitude and BeMaS. The findings provide further evidence about the causal relationship between gratitude and BeMaS among adolescents. Moreover, these results have implications for gratitude interventions that promote the constructive meaning of envy and reduce the negative influence of envy.

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How child maltreatment impacts internalized/externalized aggression among Chinese adolescents from perspectives of social comparison and the general aggression model

Cited by 29 publications

References 82 publications

How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

Resilience and Self-Esteem Mediated Associations between Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Aggression in Chinese College Students

Longitudinal Relationship between Gratitude and Benign/Malicious Envy: Evidence from a Cross-Lagged Analysis

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