The author describes his own concept of happiness, which he has derived from an original theory of personality. Personality structure consists of four subsystems: motivational, executive, egotic, and character. The definition of happiness as a synergic unity of joy, bliss, self-actualization, and meaning comes from the concept of saturation of these personality substructures. Further he focuses...

The article presents the results of an empirical study relationship between interpersonal relationships and self-actualization personality spouses. In psychology, problem spouses has not yet been sufficiently developed. subject was quantitative qualitative indicators self-actualization, harmonious / disharmonious interaction; emotional attitude; understanding, attraction, respect, satisfaction ...

This paper proposes a theory of the self as a multilevel system consisting of social, psychological, neural, and molecular mechanisms. This account provides integrated explanations of many phenomena concerning how people represent, control, and change themselves. The multilevel system theory of the self provides a scientific alternative to transcendental and deflationary views favored by many p...

This paper analyzes the employment relationship on the basis of the notion of access. We argue that the degree of access provided by a job is an incentive to activate the employee’s self-actualization needs. We investigate the effect of access on the workers’ performance through an agency model and provide a number of propositions with practical implications for personnel policies. Our results ...

To ask questions about motivation is to ask why animals do what they do. There have been many theories of motivation over the years! At one end of the spectrum was Maslow (1954), who argued that humans have a hierarchy of needs (physiological → safety → social → esteem → ‘self-actualization’, e.g. painting and composing), and must fulfil lower-level needs before addressing higher ones. It’s pre...