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MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

According to Maslow there seems to be a hierarchy into which human needs arranged themselves. The physiological needs tend to have the highest strength until they are somewhat satisfied. These are the basic needs to sustain life itself-food, clothing and shelter. Until these basic needs are satisfied to the degree needed to the sufficient operation of the body, the majority of a person’s activity will probably be at this level and the others will provide little motivation.

Once physiological needs become gratified the safety and security needs become predominant. These needs are essentially the needs to be free of fear of physical danger and deprivation of physiological needs. This is the need for self-preservation. In addition to the here and now there is also a great concern for the future.

Once physiological and safety needs are fairly well satisfied, social or affiliation will emerge as dominant in the need structure. Since pe...

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