シャーデンフロイデの喚起に及ぼす親しさと値する信念の影響

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Schadenfreude, "pleasure-in-others’-misfortune", showed lots of connections with negative emotions, and researchers focused on schadenfreude triggered by enemies or rivals, but little was mentioned about schadenfreude triggered by friends. Two studies reviewed schadenfreude in friendship and hostile relationship. Two hundred and two college students (118 females, 84 males) answered online survey which included real-life based scenarios and personality scales in Study 1. Results showed that conflict was necessary to evoke schadenfreude in friendship. Schadenfreude was predicted positively by narcissistic personality, and negatively by self-esteem. Forty-eight college students (24 females, 24 males) participated in experiments which included self-report of schadenfreude episodes in Study 2. Results showed that schadenfreude was evoked when misfortune was perceived deserved, and would be mediated by intimacy. High superiority of target would lower feeling of schadenfreude in real life. Japanese culture-specific "iikimi" represented close to "malicious pleasure", and differ from traditional schadenfreude measured by "pleasure" in previous studies.