Work jealousy triggers stress

• April 25, 2024

A recent investigation indicates that in the workplace, the sexual competition produces stress labor, which affects women more than men. However, the rival's social skills detonate jealousy and professional envy in both sexes equally.

The specialists define the jealousy as a sense of threat or loss of triumphs in a relationship, due to a third person in discord; envy conceptualizes it as a response to another person who possesses achievements, abilities or qualities that one desires, and they involve lack compared to the one envied. Both emotions detonate stress labor.

The intrasexual rivalry , it is translated in the competition with people of the same sex driven by the desire to obtain and maintain access to sex opposite.

In the study it was found that women with a high level of intrasexual competition they are more jealous if the contestant is more attractive, and there is also a feeling of envy if the opponent is more powerful and dominant.

According to its results, in general the sexual competition causes more jealousy and envy in women. However, in both men and women, the social skills of the rivals provoke these two emotions.

The objective of this study is to clarify the role of emotions in work, since both jealousy Like envy, they have not been studied in labor contexts. However, it has been found that the stress labor is caused by constant labor competition, which negatively affects the quality of life of people of productive age.

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