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Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs:
- Physiological refers to basic physical needs like drinking when thirsty or eating when hungry.
- Safety needs are seen in childhood, as children have a need for safe and predictable enivonments and may react with fear or anxiety when these are not met.
- Love and belonging. Feeling loved and accepted by family and friends and social circles.
- Esteem involves our desire to feel self-confident and good about ourselves.
- Self-actualisation refers to feeling fulfilled or living up to our potential.
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Testing Maslow's theory
Maslow's idea that we go through five specific stages hasn't always been supported by research.
In a 2011 study of human needs across cultures, researchers found that meeting six needs was linked to well-being: Basic needs (similar to Maslow's physiological needs), safety, love, pride and r...
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How people progress through the hierarchy of needs
- Maslow believed having things like freedom of expression or a just society makes it easier for people to achieve their needs.
- Maslow also said a learning environment helps to better understand the world around us.
- Maslow acknowledges that people don't have to satisfy one need...
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs
The hierarchy of need suggests that people are motivated to pursue increasingly complex needs.
Once more basic needs are fulfilled, people are then motivated by more psychological and emotional needs.
At the peak of the hierarchy is the need for self-actualiz...
The Levels of Human Basic Needs
The five basic needs are physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
To focus elsewhere, it can be summarised as follows:
- Deep connection with loved ones
- A healthy body
- Se...
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