Envy has been positively associated with both moral disengagement and organizational unethical decision-making. Nevertheless, extant research suffers from a number of limitations that constrain our ability to define the unique links between different forms of envy and moral disengagement. In two studies (N = 419), using a dual conception of envy, we demonstrate that malicious envy has a consistently stronger and unique relationship to moral disengagement than does benign envy. Additionally, from further analyses we suggest that is the harming motivation of malicious envy, and the collateral damage potentially produced by self-improvement motivation of benign envy, the aspects that would relate both types of envy to moral disengagement. Lastly, we show that moral disengagement consistently accounts for the relationship between malicious envy and unethical decision-making. In sum, these findings open different ways to better understand the link between the envious experience, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making, taking advantage of envy’s dual conceptualization.

嫉妒与道德脱离和组织不道德的决策都呈正相关。然而，现存的研究受到许多限制，这些限制限制了我们定义不同形式的嫉妒和道德脱离接触之间独特联系的能力。在两项研究中（N = 419），使用嫉妒的双重概念，我们证明恶意嫉妒与道德脱离接触具有始终比良性嫉妒更强烈和独特的关系。此外，通过进一步的分析，我们认为这是恶意嫉妒的有害动机，以及良性嫉妒的自我提升动机可能产生的附带损害，这​​些方面将两种嫉妒与道德脱离联系起来。最后，我们表明，道德脱离始终解释了恶意嫉妒和不道德决策之间的关系。总之，这些发现为更好地理解嫉妒体验、道德脱离和不道德决策之间的联系开辟了不同的途径，利用了嫉妒的双重概念化。