Abraham Maslow Slide

ABRAHAM MASLOW HIERARCHY

SAFETY NEEDS

SAFETY means knowing that you are out of danger.

Its knowing that you are taken care of, no matter what.

According to Maslow’s hierarchy,if a person feels that he or she is in harm’s way, higher needs will not receive much attention.

SAFETY NEEDS Safety needs include :

PERSONAL SECURITY

FINANCIAL SECURITY

HEALTH AND WELL -BEING

SAFETY NET AGAINST ACCIDENTS OR ILLNESS

AND THEIR ADVERSE EFFECTS

SAFETY NEEDS

With their physical needs relatively satisfied, the individual's safety needs take precedence and dominate behavior.

In the absence of physical safety, due to war, natural disaster, or in cases of family violence, childhood abuse, people experience Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Trans-generational Trauma Transfer.

SAFETY NEEDS

Major vocational implications observed in the safety needs are :

1. The strong desire on the part of the individual to remain in work that is

similar to his previous job and a preference for association with people on

the job who are familiar to him.

2. The need for a job which appears to offer greater tenure and stability with better than average health and retirement

plans.

3. A need for a smoothly functioning position with order

clearly established.

SAFETY NEEDS

As Maslow (1970) states :

“The threat of choas or of nihilism can be expected in most human beings to produce regression from any higher needs to the more prepotent safety needs.”

Hence,there is strong possibility that the individual experiencing the constant threat to physical health may look to an authoritative or military type of organization for the protection he seeks.

SAFETY NEEDS  In the absence of economic safety,  due to

economic crisis and lack of work opportunities - these safety needs manifest themselves in such things as a preference for job security, grievance procedures for protecting the individual from unilateral authority, savings accounts, insurance policies, reasonable disability accommodations.

LOVE & BELONGINGNESS

LOVE & BELONGINGNESS

Maslow states that this level is what the majority of the population remains at.

The desire for friendship, the search for a mate and the desire to be part of a family are all reflections of this need.

LOVE & BELONGINGNESS

Get a friend or a love and affection as a social beings

Gives or receives love from parents, youth, friends, adults, and couple

If not fulfill, it will be a personality disorder, aggressive behavior, anti social, anxiety, unrest, upset and emotional disturbances.

Love will cause human to grow properly (emotional) and harmony (social)

ACCORDING TO MASLOW, 3 SITUATIONS CAN EXIST:

A person who has never experienced love and closeness will eventually devalue love and not be particularly worried over their inability to find it.

A person who has received love and closeness during childhood will be able to love others, and not be devastated by the occasional rejection.

A person who has experienced just a little love and affection will be strongly motivated to meet these needs, and might go about satisfying the need for love and belongingness in a pathological way.

Maslow states that children need love in order to grow psychologically.

If people find a way to satisfy their needs for love and belongingness, than they can concentrate on satisfying the next level of:

SELF ESTEEM

INTRODUCTION The perception the individual possesses of his own

worth (Battle, 1992). Self-esteem is essentially one’s own feeling of self-

competence and self-worth (Islaiminasab, 1996). It is the sense of self worth and competence that

people associate with their self-concepts (Bandura, 1977)

They are concerned with prestige and status of the individual (egoistic needs).

"The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you. It is when you don't understand yourself." - Author Unknown

TYPE OF SELF ESTEEM

First, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom.

Secondly, the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or esteem from other people), recognition, attention, importance or appreciation.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Author Maria

Robinson

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Satisfaction of the self-esteem need leads to

feelings of self-confidence, worth, strength, capability and adequacy of being useful and necessary in the world.

Produces feelings of inferiority, of weakness and of helplessness.

BUILDING SELF ESTEEM

Focus on your strength not shortcomings (Lawrence, 2000).

Maintain gratitude diary. Learn to identify cognitive distortion. Compete with your self not others. Play self esteem games

“You will encounter frustration. Losses will occur, you will make mistakes, bump up against your limitation, fall short of your ideals. This is the human condition a reality shared by all of us." - Author

Dr. Kristin Neff

Self Actualization

• "What a man can be, he must be. It refers to the desire for self-fulfilment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially…..(Maslow,1970)

Characteristics of Self-Actualized People

Acceptance and Realism

Problem- centering Spontaneity

Continued Freshness of Appreciation

Autonomy and Solitude

Peak Experiences Sense of Humor

Creativeness