Are You Envious? Screen your Envy and Associated Health Risks using Validated Free Online Lyfas Self-Assessment Questionnaire Test Quiz of Benign and Malicious Envy Scale BeMaS

Table of Contents

A. What is Envy?

Envy is one of our evolutionary psychological functions that helps us to determine what we need and what we lag in life by comparing with others in the society through social validation.

Due to the fact that our brain doesn’t have understand anything absolute, and needs a referrence and comparision to learn, understand, comprehend and contextualize sensory data, envy plays one of the most important functions of awareness that gives a realistic perception about our environment.

Because humans are social animals, and our survival, trhriving and reproduction largely depends upon our abilities to collaborate and coordinate with others in an interdependency setting, and the fact that we collaborate better with people who are more like us, envy helps us to estiblish positive competance and collaborate better with the others.

B. Pthological and Morbid Envy

Just like most of the other aspects and dimensions of human life such as money, anger, sadness, love, when envy increases beyond a level, it becomes a pathological envy, leading to serious mental health conditions which further leads to various physical health detoriation.

On the other hand when envy is very low, this may eliminate the aspiration for us to grow in life, and achieve in life. Because envy has a positive correlation to our motivation for life and aspiration when it is managed at the lower end of the moderation, it is a masculine trait of testosterone and competance. When the envy increases beyond a level, and it is sustained, it translates into irritation, frustration, and finally hate.

Autonomic Neuropathy and Sympathetic Dominance due to Envy

Once high degree of envy and hate gets active, our empathy starts falling. Our body and brain stays in flight and fight mode most of the time, pushing body to work fast and hard, consuming more energy, pushing metabolism, reducing rest and healing, and increasing the sympathetic nervous system signalling. Increase of envy beyond pathological levels also lowers the vagal tone of the body, and therefore reduces the activation of the parasympathetic branch. This leads to impairment in sexuality, digestion, sleep, and many other such functions in the body.

Adranaline Fatigue

Pathological Envy and hate also activates higher secretation of norepeinephrine and adranaline. If this overactivation of male hormones are used in execution of a plan in the positive direction, then envy may lead to significant growth in career, wealth and personal life. However, if norepinephrine, and adranaline keeps getting released in the higher quantity without body utilizing them for executing plans and solving problems, then we may get a condition called Adranaline fatigue or Addinson’s disease.

Addinson’s disease is one of the pathogenesis of inflammation and carcinoma.

Vasoconstriction

Envy also leads to increase of cortisol hormone in our body, which inhibits the vasodilators like Nitric Oxide(NO), thereby increasing the stiffness of the endothelium of our arteries, leading to arterial stiffness. Arterial stiffness leads to several other conditions such as insulin resistance, and several cardiovascular diseases.

C. Why Checking Your Envy Levels and Keeping it Optimal is Quinessential for your Health?

As we understood from the last section that envy is one of the key precursors to several metabolic, vascular, endocrine, and neurological disorders and syndromes. Therefore knowing your envy levels helps you to correlate your underneath pathology, as well as your overall wellbeing.

Knowing and monitoring your envy level can also give you a more realistic perception about your competance levels, and your ability to plan and successfully execute the plan to solve critical life problems.

D. About BeMas Envy Scale

This scale was developed by Lange and Crusius in 2015¹.

The assessment test provides two subscales:

a) Benign Envy

This form of envy is what we call the necessary and positive envy that helps us to look at those at the higher heirarchy than us, and get motivation and aspiration to become like them.

b) Malicious (or Malignant Envy)

This is the pathological envy that may push you towards the anti-social personality disorder, increase your addictive behavior, reduce empathy, increase aggression, and may encourage you to start fighting against others, trying to push life, rather than focussing on your own self-growth.

E. Reliability of the Test

Average Cronbach’s α of the test was found to be 0.8, which suggests that the test is valid and reliable.²

Construct	Cronbach’s α
Benign envy	0.774
Malicious envy	0.839

Cultural Effect on Envy

Individualism-collectivism is one of the most important cross cultural determinant and influencer of envy.

In terms of envy, individualism-collectivism, generally defined as „the degree of interdependence a society maintains among individuals”³ is found to be the most differentiating dimension.

In collectivistic societies, interpersonal relationships are above the achievement of one’s own goals, while the group one belongs to provides support and a sense of security in exchange for a kind of loyalty as well as avoiding conflicts, primarily with members of one’s own group. Members of these societies are characterized by the “we” self-concept, so the individual represents both oneself and the entire group, which imposes increased responsibility for one’s actions, thoughts, and feelings

In individualistic societies, however, the individual strives to achieve a personal goal over relationships with others—from an early age, the “I” self-concept is developed and the pattern of strong personality aspiring for individual success is promoted because material status and self-esteem primarily determine one’s position in the social hierarchy.

The latent mean scores for the US, which is recognized as one of the most individualistic countries in the world , were the highest for both forms of envy.⁴

F. Diagnosis

Please note that ICD-10, ICD-11, DSM-IV and DSM-V doesn’t recognize any envy-specific disorder. However, in DSM-IV, envy is one of the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorders. Therefore, no clinical conditions can be diagnosed using this test.

However, we highly recommend the general physicians, and endocrionologists to recommend this test to their patients due to high influence of envy in autonomic neuropathy, neuroticism, endovascular disorders and so on. Assessment of the envy scale may open new assistive therapeutics alongside traditional treatment.

G. Prescribing Medicines

No medicine can be prescribed solely based on the results of this test without a physical examination and implementation of other standard clinical protocols, such as clinically correlating the test results.

H. Disclaimer

This test is provided as-is. Acculi Labs Pvt. Ltd. and Lyfas take no responsibility for the harm arising from taking the test, including Hypochondriasis, mental trauma, and others. The results of this test can not be used as evidence in a court of law. No institutional, legal, or disciplinary actions can be initiated based on the test results. Furthermore, we take no responsibility for the validity and accuracy of the test. This is an anonymous test, and we do not capture your sensitive data that reveals your identity, including your name, GPS, mobile number, etc. However, we log your IP address and the final test result(not individual answers).

Please note that no financial reward can be demanded from any patients if this test is prescribed or advised by a clinician. However, the clinician is free to charge for his/her services regarding interpretation, advise and therapeutics of the test.

By taking the test, you agree to not hold Acculi Labs Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore and Lyfas are not responsible and liable for any damage or harm.

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