Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to identify emotions that are related to envy. In Study 1, using interviews in which participants responded to 13 emotion-arousing questions, 172 experiences that resulted in feelings of envy were collected from 92 elementary and junior high school pupils. These data revealed that envy is composed of 3 groups of emotions. In Study 2, another 535 pupils were asked to rate 12 items in hypothetical stories covering 8 domains. Regardless of domain differences, both explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed 3 causal factors: antagonistic feelings, anguished feelings, and feelings of inadequacy. Analysis of variance revealed that the rating for antagonistic feelings were higher for boys than for girls in ability-related domains, and that scores in certain domains increased with increasing grade for both anguished feelings and feelings of inadequacy. These findings suggest that feelings of envy are dependent on age as well as on the nature of the domain.
