Malicious Envy : Its Correlation with Self-Concept and Gratitude

Abstract

. Malicious envy is a part of the negative emotions which is a psychopathological disease. If it is allowed, it will endanger one's happiness and interpersonal relationships. This study aims to test empirically the role of self concept and gratitude for malicious envy among students of UIN Walisongo Semarang. Subjects in this study were 329 students taken using a cluster sampling technique. The measurement instrument was the self concept scale, Islamic gratitude scale and malicious envy scale. Data analysis using multiple linear regression 2 predictors analysis shows that self concept and gratitude can be used as indicators to predict the malicious envy among college students positively and very significantly or p <0.01. Minor hypothesis shows that self concept can not predict the emergence of malicious envy among college students, but the gratitude can predict to the emergence of malicious envy among college students positively and very significantly or p <0.01. of formal operational cognitive development. This study is very important to conduct because studies focusing on the causes of malicious envy is still very rare. Therefore, this study seeks to find the causes for malicious envy in students which can eventually be used as a reference to overcome the emergence of malicious envy and design character education. This study aims to empirically examine the role of self-concept