Comprehending envy.

By Richard H. Smith, S. H. Kim. Psychological bulletin, 2007

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Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “Envy is defined as " an unpleasant and often painful blend of feelings characterized by inferiority, hostility, and resentment caused by a comparison with a person or group of persons who possess something we desire " (Smith & Kim, 2007, p. 49).”
Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. (2015, neutral): “Theoretically, continually exposing oneself to positive information about others should elicit envy, an emotion linked to lower well-being (Salovey & Rodin, 1984; Smith & Kim, 2007).”
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being (2018, background): “Smith and Kim (2007) have suggested that envy feelings may be triggered by overexposure to social information in SNS and cause significant damage to users’ well-being and life satisfaction.”
A Social Context Model of Envy and Social Undermining (2012, background): “On the other hand, envy is considered a “call to action” (Smith & Kim, 2007: 53) and is seen by researchers as a prominent conceptual antecedent of undermining; our results suggest that envy’s role may have been overstated in the literature.”
Understanding the Disparate Behavioral Consequences of LMX Differentiation: The Role of Social Comparison Emotions (2018, background): “This would be consistent with the experience of envy which emphasizes the desire for something others have that seems unattainable for you (Smith & Kim, 2007).”
Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users' Life Satisfaction? (2013, background): “The seeming unimportance of envy revealed in this analysis may be rooted in respondents’ reluctance to directly admit to experiencing envy, rather reporting such general outcomes as feelings of anger, exhaustion, frustration, and irritation [11], [26].”
Explaining Females’ Envy Toward Social Media Influencers (2018, background): “Envy has been an important topic in psychology because it leads to aggressive behaviors (e.g., crime, conflicts) and malicious feelings for the target of envy (Smith & Kim, 2007).”
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND DEPRESSION AMONG U.S. YOUNG ADULTS (2016, background): “[43, 44] Consequently, these envious feelings may lead to a sense of self-inferiority and depression over time.[45] It is also possible that the feeling of “time wasted” by engaging in activities of little meaning on social media negatively influences mood.”
Current Emotion Research in Social Psychology: Thinking About Emotions and Other People (2015, background): “Van Dijk and Ouwerkerk (2014) distinguished three concerns explaining why a person may find another person’s negative outcome satisfying: envying someone else (e.g., R. H. Smith & Kim, 2007), feeling that they deserve to suffer (e.g., Feather, Wenzel, & McKee, 2012), and feeling inferior to them.”
The psychology of appraisal: : Specific emotions and decision-making (2015, background): “Because envy is associated with heightened awareness of another person's possession that one lacks (Smith & Kim, 2007), envy can lead to a mindset of high attention about others.”
Exploring the When and Why of Schadenfreude (2009, positive): “They would just as soon that no one has the advantage if they themselves are denied it (Smith & Kim, 2007).”