envy

The article is devoted to conducting a critical analysis of social and psychological works on the problem of envy. The purpose of this analysis is ordering and generalization of knowledge of its functions and appointment in the personal’s social life. Stimulating, affirming, protective, regulatory and controlling functions and the components of their offering are allocated to the article.

The problem of determination of envy, multi-level mechanisms of its regulation is one of the urgent problems in today’s dynamic and highly differentiated society. The study of the relationship of envy, subjective well-being and social skills can reveal the direction of the links between these variables. The study involved 196 people of both sexes (44% of men) aged M = 28.6; SD = 8.5. The research was based on the technique for the diagnosis of personal enviousness and subject areas of envy (T. V. Beskova), methods of measuring subjective well-being of the individual by R. M.