THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT BETWEEN ENVY AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION AMONG UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES

Abstract

This research explored the mediation influence regarding perceived social support on envy along with emotional control among unemployed graduates who have done their graduation and are still unemployed. As before, there is not much data about how “envy” with “emotional regulation” and “perceived social support” affects jobless graduates. This study inspected perceived social support mediating impacts on envy and emotional regulation. One hundred unemployed graduates, between 22 to 26 years ld, answered the envy scale as part of research (Lange & Crusius, 2015), Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003) Urdu translated version (Abbasi & Kazmi, 2022) and Perceived Social Support tool (Dhalem et al, 1988) Urdu translated version (Jabeen, 2023) along with a demographic form and consent form. Descriptive analysis showed that there appeared significant link between envy, regulation of emotions and perceived social support. The correlation analysis revealed that “envy” and “emotional regulation” along with “perceived social support” have a significant relationship. The findings through “t-test” analysis showed that males and females did not exhibit any obvious differentiation in the degree related by benign and malicious envy and a significant distinction analyzed between benign envy in unemployed graduates through analysis of variance. In addition, it was determined through regression analysis that perceived social support partially negatively mediates benign envy, malicious envy, and Emotional regulation, which indicates that perceived social support helped to reduce the effects of envy on emotional regulation.