Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

The five levels

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory by Abraham Maslow, which puts forward five basic categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization.

Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality.

Say again, Maslow?

Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908–June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority,

Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a “bag of symptoms”

A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Maslow as the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century. (Source: Wikipedia)

The five levels

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

We must satisfy needs lower down in the hierarchy before individuals can attend to needs higher up. From the bottom of the hierarchy…