He left it as saying that humans have five types of needs. All his sayings come from his book called Motivation and Personality that was released in 1943. The lowest level of needs is the physiological needs and these come from the human body and these are like air, warmth, food, sleep, stimulations and activity. On top of these needs are the security or safety needs like being away from threats and these needs are the strongest among children as they feel the greatest need to be safe. Then are the social needs like the love of family and friends. The next level of needs is those for ego or self-esteem. These demand that we have self-respect and get respect from others. The highest level of needs is those for self-actualization or fulfillment. These needs are prominent among people who have achieved all other requirements and have a healthy personality. These reflect in the forms of 'truth, goodness, beauty, unity, transcendence, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, justice, order and simplicity'. (Maslow's Hierarchy of needs: Deeper Mind) All the levels of need were placed by him on top of each other like a pyramid, starting from the first level up to the fifth level. There is no attempt here to judge a category of persons as having different mentality than another group. In short, he believed that all humans were born equal.
The hierarchy of needs and the specific needs within each were defined by him. In the first instance it was."..it seems impossible as well as useless to make any list of fundamental physiological needs, for they can come to almost any number one might wish, depending on the degree of specificity of description." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic) Then came the second stage and the definition was "If the physiological needs are relatively well gratified, there then emerges a new set of needs, which we may categorize roughly as the safety needs, security; stability; dependency; protection; freedom from fear, anxiety, and chaos; need for structure, order, law, and limits; strength in the protector; and so on." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic)
It is clear that the third set was thought to be superior over the first two for he wrote "If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, there will emerge the love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new center. The love needs involve giving and receiving affection. When they are unsatisfied, a person will feel keenly the absence of friends, mate, or children." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic) The fourth level was thought by him to come only when the first three were satisfied for he wrote "All people in our society with a few pathological exceptions have a need or desire for a stable, firmly based, usually high evaluation of themselves, for self-respect or self-esteem, and for the esteem of others. These needs may therefore be classified into two subsidiary sets. These are, first, the desire for strength, achievement, adequacy, mastery and competence, confidence in the face of the world, and independence and freedom. Second, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige defining it as respect or esteem from other people, status, fame and glory, dominance, recognition, attention, importance, dignity, or appreciation." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic)
The reasons for the fourth level of needs are also clearly explained by him as being from "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. But thwarting of these needs produces feelings of inferiority, of weakness, and of helplessness." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic) The other side of the requirement of these needs is obvious and these are stated by him as "The most stable and therefore most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic) Then Maslow reaches to the highest level of needs in human beings and he states "Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often (if not always) expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he or she, individually, is fitted for. Musicians must make music, artists must paint, and poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization." (Maslow's Holistic Dynamic)
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