Fig 1.
Scree plots of Eigenvalue by number of factors: Observed, parallel analysis, and broken-stick analysis.
Fig 2.
Close-up of Fig 1.
Close-up of Fig 1 showing scree plots of Eigenvalue by the first six factors: Observed, parallel analysis, and broken-stick analysis.
Table 1.
Factor loadings for schadenfreude items.
Table 2.
Means and standard deviations for the 12-item schadenfreude scale.
Fig 3.
Final factor structure of the schadenfreude measure.
The benign and malicious factors were moderately correlated (r = .58, p < .001). The negative valence factor was uncorrelated with the benign (r = -.08) and malicious (r = -.43) factors (ps > .06).
Table 3.
Study 4: Descriptive statistics, zero-order (below diagonal), and partial (above diagonal) correlations (controlling for Krizan & Johar [2012] scale).
Table 4.
Incremental validity statistics for benign and malevolent schadenfreude, controlling for Krizan and Johar’s scale [11].
Fig 4.
Study 5: Scatterplot showing the distributions of the Malevolent (x-axis) and Benign (y-axis) Schadenfreude subscales. N = 304, r = .39, p < .001.
Fig 5.
Top: Episodic schadenfreude as a function of condition and political affiliation. Bottom: Intentions to share as a function of condition and political affiliation. Study 5: Focal effects from the bootstrapped moderated mediation model described in Fig 6. Numbers reflect unstandardized regression coefficients, with 95% confidence intervals in brackets. The unmediated direct effect is shown in parentheses.
Table 5.
Episodic schadenfreude (left) and intentions to share robert hunter’s story (right) as functions of affiliation and condition.
Fig 6.
Bootstrapped moderated mediation model.
Table 6.
Episodic schadenfreude mediates the predicted affiliation × condition contrast.