"I think when you have low self-esteem, you will do almost anything to feel better, and when you're confronted with the misfortune of others," you'll feel schadenfreude, van Dijk told LiveScience. "In this study, if we give people something to affirm their self, then what we found is they have less schadenfreude — they don't need the misfortune of others to feel better anymore."
www.livescience.com/17398-schadenfreude-affirmation.html
Interessant - sagt viel über Personen aus, die Schadenfreude empfinden :)