Maslow's 5 Steps of Hierarchy of Needs
1. Physiological Needs
Biological needs such as oxygen, food, water, clothes, protection so forth. These needs are the strongest because if deprived, the person could or would die.
2. Safety Needs
Felt by adults during emergencies, periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting). Felt more frequently by children who often display signs of insecurity and their need to be safe.
3. Social Needs
The needs to escape loneliness and alienation and give (and receive) love, affection and the sense of belonging.
4. Esteem Needs
Need for a stable, firmly based, high level of self-respect, and respect from others in
order to feel satisfied, self confident and valuable. If these needs are not met, the
person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless.
5.Self-actualization Needs
Maslow describes self-actualization as a person's need to be and do that which the person was born to do. It is his "calling". "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write." If these needs are not met, the person feels restlessness, on edge, tense, and lacking something. Lower needs may also produce a restless feeling, but here is it much easier to find the cause. If a person is hungry, unsafe, not loved or accepted, or lacking self-esteem the cause is apparent. It is not always clear what a person wants when there is a need for self-actualization
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