Dabrowski's (1972) theory of positive disintegration argues that anxiety appears to be the dynamic of self-actualization. A study to assess this hypothesis (Wilkins, Hjelle, & Thompson, 1977) reported that self-actualization was incompatible with chronic, debilitating or neurotic anxiety. The current study further examined the empirical and conceptual relation between anxiety and self-actualiza...

Self-actualization has been studied among various occupational groups such as managers, supervisors, administrators, counselors, principles teachers and secondary school boys and girls. The objectives of the study were to find difference in self – actualization of boys and girls, boys and girls studying in 9th and 10th class, boys studying in 9th class and 10th class and girls studying in 9th a...

Holistic Dynamic Theory assumes that the whole person is continually being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health, that is, self actualization. To attain self actualization, people must satisfy lower level needs such as hunger, safety, love, and esteem. Only after they are relatively satisfied in each of these needs can they reach...

The actualization of affordances can often be accomplished in numerous, equifinal ways. For instance, an individual could discard an item in a rubbish bin by walking over and dropping it, or by throwing it from a distance. The aim of the current study was to investigate the behavioral dynamics associated with such metastability using a ball-to-bin transportation task. Using time-interval betwee...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between leisure involvement, well-being, the benefits of serious leisure activities, and self-actualization for 2011 Changhua National Games volunteers. It selects 265 sports volunteer workers who participated in the 2011 Changhua National Games using convenience sampling. The results of the study show: 1. Leisure activity involvement for the spo...

In his recent book, Creative Actualization: A Meliorist Theory of Values, Hugh McDonald wades into the murky waters of value theory in order to develop a uniquely pragmatist theory of value. He ties value to what he calls “creative actualizations,” or the process of introducing novelties, conditions, norms and principles into our individual and collective experience. Creative actualization acco...

Where ‘soul’ and ‘body’ are traditionally viewed (following Descartes) as two separate entities belonging to two different realities, today this is by no means the case. A large number of studies in the areas of psychopathology and orthopedagogy have already been carried out from which it seems clear that the inadequate actualization of either lived bodiliness [corporeality] or the psychic life...

Maslow's need hierarchy and model of the self-actualizing personality are reviewed and criticized. The definition of self-actualization is found to be confusing, and the gratification of all needs is concluded to be insufficient to explain self-actualization. Therefore the theory is reconstructed on the basis of a second-order, cognitive-systemic framework. A hierarchy of basic needs is derived...

A novel theoretical model is presented maintaining that consciousness evolved on the basis of time distinctions. Various models of time pertain to the existence of future, present and past. It is proposed that the future represents potentialities, the present the actualization of certain potentialities, and the past a record of actualized potentialities. Actualization of potentialities derives ...

one of the issues disagreed among the islamic jurists is the possibility of the actualization of justice among the people of the scripture. the renowned majority of the jurists believe in the non-actualization of justice among the disbelievers in general. this article, at first, points out the evidences of the renowned majority of the jurists on the non-actualization of justice among the people...