Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
dispositional envy
English answer:
tendency to experience envy across a variety of tasks and situations
English term
dispositional
"According to Lange and Crusius, benign envy increases the enviers’ motivation to move upward, to improve their own positions, whereas malevolent envy increases the motivation to harm another person or damage their status. According to the authors, “Dispositional envy is a comparison-based emotional trait that leads to frustration when people are confronted with an upward standard. . . . In general, envy’s functional goal is to level the difference between the self and the envied person. In the case of benign envy, the envier tries to level up whereas in the case of malicious envy, the envier tries to level the envied person down.”
How should "dispositional" be understood in this context? How is it different from general envy?
Thank you in advance
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tendency to experience envy across a variety of tasks and situations
This is not really a translation question as such, more a research one. And I really don't like this style of writing e.g. the enviers’ motivation, envy’s functional goal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296859/
this points out some differences between episodic and dispositional envy
"Feelings of episodic envy as well as associated regions of activation tend to be largely task- and situation-specific; however, dispositional envy is thought to reflect an individual’s tendency to experience envy across a variety of tasks and situations
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"Previous studies have conjectured that the experience of episodic envy involves two principle components: the emotional experience and the cognitive appraisal process.
Dispositional envy, on the other hand, is associated with stable/chronic feelings of inferiority and ill will, which may significantly affect the aforementioned cognitive appraisal process, thereby giving rise to increased feelings of envy.
Therefore, we hypothesized that dispositional envy would not only exhibit common regions of activation with episodic envy but would also be associated with activity in more regions involved in emotion regulation[...]
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Tina Vonhof (X)
: Merriam Webster gives this meaning of disposition: a tendency to act or think in a particular way
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Thank you! Yes, similar to being (pre)disposed to OR inclined to
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Daryo
: or "being predisposed to ..." // or see the pair "episodic/dispositional" as a parallel to the pair "acute/chronic" disease.
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