2009-1-12
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
Authorship of Wang Yan Cheng, Vincent
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs motivation theory suggests that within each person there are five hierarchical needs, and the individual must satisfy each level before they move onto the next. They are:
1. physiological needs: needed for basic survival including food, shelter, sexual satisfaction i.e.
2. safety needs. When all physiological needs are satisfied and are no longer controlling thoughts and behaviors, then the needs for security can become active. They are the individual yearning for a predictable, orderly world in which injustice and inconsistency are under control. Safety, or security needs include safety of body ,safety of property, health and well-being, safety in numbers (gang).
3. social needs. When the needs for physiological well-being and for safety are satisfied, the next class of needs for love (to love and be loved sexually and non-sexually by others), affection and belongingness can emerge. This psychological aspect involves emotionally-based relationship in general.
4. esteem needs: when the first three class of needs satisfied, the needs for esteem can become dominate. These involve need for both self-esteem and esteem an individual 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, a person feels confidence and valuable. When these needs are frustrated, the person feels worthless, helpless weak and inferior.
5. self actualization (or aesthetic) need. The point of reaching one’s full potential as a person’s need to be or do that which the person was “born to do”.
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