| Physiological
Needs |
These
are biological needs. It consists of needs for oxygen, food, water,
and a relatively constant body temperature.
This is the strongest
needs because is all needs are deprived, the physiological ones
would come first in the person's search for satisfaction. |
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| Safety
Needs |
When
all physiological needs are satisfied and are no longer controlling
thoughts and behaviors, the needs for security can become active.
Adults have little awareness of their security needs except in
times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social
structure (such as natural disasters or widespread rioting). Children
often display the signs of insecurity and the need to be safe. |
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| Needs
of Love,
Affection
and Belongingness |
When
the needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied,
the next class of needs for love, affection and belongingness
can emerge.
Maslow states that people seek to overcome the feelings
of loneliness and alienation. This involves both giving and receiving
love, affection and the sense of belonging. |
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| Needs
for Esteem |
When
the first three needs are satisfied, the need for esteem can become
dominant. This involves both self esteem and the esteem a person
gets from others. Humans have a need for a stable, firmly based,
high level of self-respect, and respect from others.
When these
needs are satisfied, the person feels self-confident and valuable
as a person in the world. When these needs are frustrated, the
person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless. |
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| Needs
for Self
Actualization |
When
all previously needs are satisfied, then and only then are the
needs for Self
Actualization
activated. Maslow describes Self
Actualization
as a person's need to be and do that which the person was born
for. "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a
poet must write."
These needs make themselves felt in restlessness
or feeling unfulfilled. The person feels on edge, tense, feeling
that something is missing in their life, in short, feeling unfulfilled.
If a person is hungry, unsafe, neither loved or nor accepted,
or lacking self-esteem, it is very easy to know why the person
is feels unfulfilled.
It is not always clear what a person wants
when there is a need for Self
Actualization,
except a general feeling of being unfullfilled. To paraphrase
Tolstoy, those individuals who are Self
Actualized,
are happy and fulfilled in similar ways, but those who are not
Self
Actualized, are unhappy and feel unfulfilled in their own unique
ways.
Those who are developing their Potentials know what
Self
Actualization
is, those who are not developing their Potentials, do not know
and may feel unfulfilled. |
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