Jealousy and envy

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Jealousy is a complex emotion, partaking both fear and anger, in which an individual feels threatened at the perceived claim of another person over his source of affection, security or status. Envy is a related but more complex and later developed emotion in which the threat to self-esteem emanates from a perceiptionm that other individuals are superior in status, attainments or possessions. Jealousy arises in a special kind of competitive situation in which some restriction prevails in the availability of a desired object or relationship and in which possession seems to exist on an exclusive basis.