Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Psychology: Emotion & Wellbeing1 sample item
About this scale
Maslow's hierarchy of needs (1943) is well known. If you do not know much about it, please watch our PsyToolkit tutorial video below. Toarmina and Gao (2013) created a questionnaire to measure the degree to which people are satisfied on the five dimensions.
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Notes
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Source & citation
Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50 , 370–396. | Taormina, R.J. and Gao, J.H. (2013). Maslow and the Motivation Hierarchy: Measuring Satisfaction of the Needs. The American Journal of Psychology, 126(2) , 155-177
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