caa a22 4500 388025387 CHVBK 20180307124936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0257543400000833 doi S0257543400000833 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0257543400000833 Maslow's hierarchy of needs and its relationship with psychological health and materialism [Elektronische Daten] Maslow's (1954) theory of a hierarchy of human needs has generated little research, perhaps because of the lack of specific, concrete operationalisation of concepts such as ‘psychological well-being' and basic need satisfaction. The Need Satisfaction Inventory (NSI: Lester, 1990) was developed to measure basic need satisfaction and 157 undergraduate subjects completed both it and the Beck Depression (BDI) and Anxiety Inventories (BAI), as well as Spielberger's (1986) Anger-Expression questionnaire (AX). The latter three questionnaires represent an operationalisation of Spielberger, Ritterband, Sydeman, Reheiserdc Unger's (1995) notion that emotions act as indicators of psychological well-being. The hypothesis that scores on the NSI would be significantly correlated with the BDI, BAI, and AX was supported. Ss also completed the Richins and Dawson (1992) materialism index, and it was hypothesised that if hoarding material goods does in fact represent compensatory neurotic behaviour, then materialism would also be negatively correlated with the NSI. The hypothesis was confirmed, providing further evidence for Maslow's (1970) theory that basic need satisfaction is associated with psychological health. However, in the absence of norms for the NSI, there was no conclusive evidence to suggest that basic needs reside in a consistent, and strict global hierarchy. Copyright © Massey University - Treat as syndics title 1998 Saunders Shaun University of Newcastle, Australia Munro Don University of Newcastle, Australia Bore Miles University of Newcastle, Australia South Pacific Journal of Psychology Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998), 15-25 0257-5434 10:2<15 1998 10 SPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0257543400000833 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0257543400000833 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saunders Shaun University of Newcastle, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Munro Don University of Newcastle, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bore Miles University of Newcastle, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- South Pacific Journal of Psychology Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998), 15-25 0257-5434 10:2<15 1998 10 SPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge