The Ever-Evolving Dark Side Emotions of the Football Supporters: A Study on Adaptation of Schadenfreude Scale

Ahmet Anıl Karapolatgil; İrge Şener

Makale detayları

The Ever-Evolving Dark Side Emotions of the Football Supporters: A Study on Adaptation of Schadenfreude Scale

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Anıl Karapolatgil | İrge Şener

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sociology of Sports

Dergi:

Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.169-207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001347399

pISSN:

1309-0356

Anahtar kelimeler:

Özet:

 Enjoying from others maleficence, defined as schadenfreude, is a common emotion among football team supporters. Based on the social identity of supporters, schadenfreude develops as part of the rivalry, which the main sources of it are similarity, repeated competition, and competitiveness. This study is aimed to understand and classify supporters schadenfreude reasons based on an adapted scale. For this aim, the data gathered from a questionnaire consisting of a sample of 1.163 supporters of 14 Turkish football teams is examined by SPSS in order to reveal participants schadenfreude and their reasons for evaluating their rivals. As a result of participants rivalry classifications, the most common reasons for considering a team as a rival are determined respectively as image, neighborhood, and worldview difference. Moreover, schadenfreude is mostly felt towards the archrival, and supporters would be happiest with negativities experienced by the rival teams managers. However, damage to rival team facilities is found as an unhappy situation. The study is the first that demonstrates the relationship between schadenfreude and rivalry and proposes unique incident and feasible contingencies as new rivalry factors. With these factors, different perspectives on the formation and continuity of rivalry are presented.

 Enjoying from others maleficence, defined as schadenfreude, is a common emotion among football team supporters. Based on the social identity of supporters, schadenfreude develops as part of the rivalry, which the main sources of it are similarity, repeated competition, and competitiveness. This study is aimed to understand and classify supporters schadenfreude reasons based on an adapted scale. For this aim, the data gathered from a questionnaire consisting of a sample of 1.163 supporters of 14 Turkish football teams is examined by SPSS in order to reveal participants schadenfreude and their reasons for evaluating their rivals. As a result of participants rivalry classifications, the most common reasons for considering a team as a rival are determined respectively as image, neighborhood, and worldview difference. Moreover, schadenfreude is mostly felt towards the archrival, and supporters would be happiest with negativities experienced by the rival teams managers. However, damage to rival team facilities is found as an unhappy situation. The study is the first that demonstrates the relationship between schadenfreude and rivalry and proposes unique incident and feasible contingencies as new rivalry factors. With these factors, different perspectives on the formation and continuity of rivalry are presented.

 Enjoying from others maleficence, defined as schadenfreude, is a common emotion among football team supporters. Based on the social identity of supporters, schadenfreude develops as part of the rivalry, which the main sources of it are similarity, repeated competition, and competitiveness. This study is aimed to understand and classify supporters schadenfreude reasons based on an adapted scale. For this aim, the data gathered from a questionnaire consisting of a sample of 1.163 supporters of 14 Turkish football teams is examined by SPSS in order to reveal participants schadenfreude and their reasons for evaluating their rivals. As a result of participants rivalry classifications, the most common reasons for considering a team as a rival are determined respectively as image, neighborhood, and worldview difference. Moreover, schadenfreude is mostly felt towards the archrival, and supporters would be happiest with negativities experienced by the rival teams managers. However, damage to rival team facilities is found as an unhappy situation. The study is the first that demonstrates the relationship between schadenfreude and rivalry and proposes unique incident and feasible contingencies as new rivalry factors. With these factors, different perspectives on the formation and continuity of rivalry are presented.

 Enjoying from others maleficence, defined as schadenfreude, is a common emotion among football team supporters. Based on the social identity of supporters, schadenfreude develops as part of the rivalry, which the main sources of it are similarity, repeated competition, and competitiveness. This study is aimed to understand and classify supporters schadenfreude reasons based on an adapted scale. For this aim, the data gathered from a questionnaire consisting of a sample of 1.163 supporters of 14 Turkish football teams is examined by SPSS in order to reveal participants schadenfreude and their reasons for evaluating their rivals. As a result of participants rivalry classifications, the most common reasons for considering a team as a rival are determined respectively as image, neighborhood, and worldview difference. Moreover, schadenfreude is mostly felt towards the archrival, and supporters would be happiest with negativities experienced by the rival teams managers. However, damage to rival team facilities is found as an unhappy situation. The study is the first that demonstrates the relationship between schadenfreude and rivalry and proposes unique incident and feasible contingencies as new rivalry factors. With these factors, different perspectives on the formation and continuity of rivalry are presented.

Makale detayları

The Ever-Evolving Dark Side Emotions of the Football Supporters: A Study on Adaptation of Schadenfreude Scale

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Anıl Karapolatgil | İrge Şener

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sociology of Sports

Dergi:

Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.169-207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001347399

pISSN:

1309-0356

Archival

Football

Rivalry

Schadenfreude

Social identity

Sayı

Makale detayları

The Ever-Evolving Dark Side Emotions of the Football Supporters: A Study on Adaptation of Schadenfreude Scale

Yazarlar: Ahmet Anıl Karapolatgil | İrge Şener

Yayıncı: Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar: Sociology of Sports

Dergi: Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.169-207

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 4/2025

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001347399

pISSN: 1309-0356

Archival

Football

Rivalry

Schadenfreude

Social identity

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Anıl Karapolatgil | İrge Şener

Yayıncı:

Pamukkale University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sociology of Sports

Dergi:

Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.169-207

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2025

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001347399

pISSN:

1309-0356