Psychological Need

A Psychological Need is a persistent organism motivational state that creates psychological pressure for need satisfaction to maintain psychological well-being and behavioral functioning.

• AKA: Mental Need, Psychological Requirement, Psychological Drive.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate Need-Driven Behavior through psychological need activation mechanisms.
  • It can typically influence Goal Formation through psychological need priority systems.
  • It can typically regulate Resource Allocation through psychological need urgency signals.
  • It can typically maintain Homeostatic Balance through psychological need satisfaction feedback.
  • It can typically shape Personality Development through psychological need fulfillment patterns.
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  • It can often interact with Physiological Needs through psychological need competition dynamics.
  • It can often manifest across Cultural Contexts through psychological need expression variations.
  • It can often evolve through Life Stages via psychological need developmental trajectory.
  • It can often determine Mental Health Outcomes through psychological need satisfaction levels.
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  • It can range from being a Basic Psychological Need to being a Complex Psychological Need, depending on its psychological need cognitive requirement.
  • It can range from being a Universal Psychological Need to being a Culture-Specific Psychological Need, depending on its psychological need cultural scope.
  • It can range from being a Conscious Psychological Need to being an Unconscious Psychological Need, depending on its psychological need awareness level.
  • It can range from being a Deficit-Based Psychological Need to being a Growth-Based Psychological Need, depending on its psychological need motivational orientation.
  • It can range from being a Individual Psychological Need to being a Collective Psychological Need, depending on its psychological need social dimension.
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• Examples:
  • Autonomy Need for self-determination.
  • Competence Need for mastery achievement.
  • Relatedness Need for social connection.
  • Power Need for influence control.
  • Achievement Need for accomplishment attainment.
  • Affiliation Need for group belonging.
  • Acknowledgment Need for recognition seeking.
  • Emotional Safety Need for psychological protection.
  • Belongingness Need for social inclusion.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Physiological Need, which addresses biological requirements rather than psychological states.
  • Preference, which represents optional desires rather than fundamental requirements.
  • Want, which constitutes conscious desires rather than deep-seated needs.
• See: Need, Need Theory, Need For Achievement, Need For Affiliation, Need For Power, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Self-Determination Theory, McClelland's Human Motivation Theory, Organism Motivational State, Psychological Drive, Motivated Person.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_theory Retrieved:2021-3-15.
  • Need theory, also known as Three needs theory, proposed by psychologist David McClelland, is a motivational model that attempts to explain how the needs for achievement, affiliation, power affect the actions of people from a managerial context. This model was developed in the 1960s, two decades after Maslow's hierarchy of needs was first proposed in the early 1940s. McClelland stated that we all have these three types of motivation regardless of age, sex, race, or culture. The type of motivation by which each individual is driven derives from their life experiences and the opinions of their culture. This need theory is often taught in classes concerning management or organizational behaviour.

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