Status jealousy
It is the most spread and less harmful kind of jealousy. It is not a jealousy for someone or something. It won't be wrong to state that all of us are possessed with this kind of jealousy. Have you ever felt that your colleague is not good enough to has his position and that this position should be yours? If you have than you also inclined for status jealousy. It is a jealousy that deals with social status of a person. It is not necessary a status in the broad society. Family, friends, children – any group of people may be recognised as society. And the place one wants to have in the society is an object of his or her jealousy.
The article about child's jealousy deals with the kinds of jealousy children have and one of those kinds may be recognised as a status jealous. It is a jealousy for younger brother or sister. See, when there is only one child in the family it gets used to receive the whole attention and love of the parents. So, the status of shield in the family is – everybody's favourite. But, with the appearance of the second baby, the younger brother or sister things change. Parents pay great attention to their newly born baby and so they steal that attention from the elder child. We all know that it is not, that parents still love their child just the baby needs more attention. Though, the child doesn't understand it and so the status jealousy appears.
Another kind of status jealousy is typical for woman. It is a jealous for different hobbies of a man. It is common foe man to be fond of fishing, football, cars and so on and so forth. No matter how much a man loves his woman he still needs to have a rest and have fun with other men. So, it is not the hobby is a thing of great value, but the time he spends among his friends talking about guys' stuff. It doesn't mean that he doesn't love her anymore. It means that he is a man and he is a bit tired of talks about cosmetics and gossips about her friends. He needs to recover his strength in order to be a good listener for her. Though, women recognise such behaviour as neglecting of their precious personalities and so feel jealous about the hobby.
The status jealousy is the most common jealousy and it would be great if no one suffer with other kinds of jealousy but this one. The status jealousy is a harmless jealousy. Usually it only results in desire to prove that you a better than the one who occupies the position you have to occupy. It is a feeling that provokes people for working harder and proving that they worth something. Children who suffer with status jealousy usually improve their skills in order to be noticed by parents and to make parents feel proud about them. And women usually start to pay more attention to their look and so become more beautiful.