Maslow's term for the final stage of human needs, in which a person intergrates the self, making the personality whole
self-actualization: there are three levels of God Realization that must be achieved to truly know God! There is self-actualization or self-realization of the Personality. Self-Actualization or Self-Realization of the Soul, and Self-Actualization and Self-Realization of the Monad or Mighty I Am Presence. There are many successful people in the world such as movie stars, doctors, psychologists and so on. However, this may be self-actualization of the personality and not the Soul or Monad! Strive for Self-Actualization of all three in this order
In Maslow's terminology, the highest in the hierarchy of human needs, the need to realize one's potential; can be achieved only after lower needs are met. (443)
A state that is achieved when one's personal dreams and aspirations have been attained. go to glossary index
Defined by Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, as “the full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc.†It is an ongoing process of using one’s capacities fully, creatively, and joyfully. Self-actualizing people are generally committed to a vocation or cause beyond their sole personal interests.
according to Maslow, the point or process of psychological development where an individual has reached his full potential as a human being.
the idea of a hierarchy of needs suggests that the desire to fulfil one's potential is the final cause of motivated behaviour. Few people become self-actualizing according to this view of motivation. Those who do, generally in their fifties, are seen as possessing a similar set of ideals, values, and attitudes. Once motivated by this need, individuals experience a spiralling need for challenge in their work which means they are always seeking to develop their capacities and realize their potential. In practice it has been difficult to define and measure self-actualization with any rigour.
Term used by Goldstein and Maslow to denote actualization one's potentialities.
Fully realizing one's individual human potential.
According to Abraham Maslow and some other adherents of the humanistic approach to personality, the full realization of one's potential. See also hierarchy of needs, peak experience.
the need to attain one's highest potential and achieve one's ambitions in life.
a state in which a person has achieved the highest level of growth in Maslow's hierarchy of needs
A person?s fundamental tendency toward maximal realization of his or her potentials; a basic concept in humanistic theories of personality such as those developed by Maslow and Rogers.