The Mediatory Role of Greed in the Relationship between Pride and Envy

The present research aims at compiling the model of relationship between pride, greed and envy. The research is of correlation type and was conducted on a sample population composed of 384 students in Khomein University, selected through multi-stage random sampling. The Islamic scales of greed/contentment and pride/ hiumily and the revised version of envy scale were used for gathering data, and the data were analyzed through Sobel test and path analysis. The indexes show the desirable fitness of the suggested model and support the mediatory role of greed in the relationship between pride and envy. The findings show that arrogance is the source of many negative feelings and characteristics including greed. It is necessary, thus, to pay more attention to the foundations, relations and mechanism of such moral characteristics.