How the Big Five personality traits related to aggression from perspectives of the benign and malicious envy

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Mediating effect of malicious envy between neuroticism/agreeability and progression and 95% confidence intervals

	Paths	Effect	Boot SE	Lower	Upper
Direct effect	Neuroticism → Aggression	.32	.04	.24	.39
Indirect effect	Neuroticism → Malicious envy → Aggression	.19	.03	.14	.24
Total indirect effect		.19
Total effect		.51
Direct effect	Agreeableness → Aggression	− .58	− .05	− .69	− .48
Indirect effect	Agreeableness → Malicious envy → Aggression	− .24	− .04	− .32	− .17
Total indirect effect		− .24
Total effect		− .82

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