Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• WSS 2402 Christian DeVries

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Meeting your needs

• List 3-4 things that you need or that you
  perceive that you need to be a successful
  athlete.
• List 3-4 things that you want from your athletic
  experience.
• How do you meet your needs and wants as an
  athlete?

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Abraham Maslow

• Established in the late 1950s and Early 1960s
• Established the theory that human being are
  motivated by unsatisfied needs and that certain
  lower needs need to be satisfied before higher
  needs can be satisfied
• People are basically trustworthy, self
  protecting, and self governing.
• Violence is not part of human nature. People
  become violent because they are deprived of lower
  needs that need to be satisfied.
• 2 types of needs Deficiency needs Growth needs

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Hierarchy of needs
Self - Actualization
Esteem
Social
Safety
Physiological
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Physiological

• The very basic needs
• Air
• Food
• Water
• Sleep
• Sex
• These feeling motivate us to alleviated them as
  soon as possible

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Safety needs

• Establishing stability and consistency in a
  chaotic world
• These are mostly psychological in nature
• Security of a home
• Need for law and order
• Often motive people to become religious
• Many people never get past these needs

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Social Needs

• The desire to belong
• We want to be needed
• We want to be accepted
• We need to feel loved by others

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Esteem Needs

• Two types
• Competency
• Attention and recognition
• Admiration has to do with the need for power
• Self-Concept comes into play
• How I see myself how I think other see me

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Self Actualization

• The Growth need
• The Army says it best
• Now that people have everything met they can
  maximize their potential

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Application to Sport

• Developing a team
• Physiological
• Safety
• Social
• Esteem
• Self Actualization