The Safety Needs
If the physiologieeds are relatively well gratified7, there then emerges a of needs, which we may categorize roughly as the safety needs. 40All that has been said of the physiologieeds is equally true, although in lesr degree, of the desires. The anism may equally well be wholly dominated by them. They may rve as the almost exclusive anizers of behavior, recruiting8 all the capacities of the anism in their rvice, 45and we may then fairly describe the whole anism as a safety-eking meism.
The healthy, normal, fortunate adult in our culture is largely satisfied in his safety needs. The peaceful, smoothly running, ‘good’ society ordinarily makes its members feel safe enough from wild animals, 50extremes of temperature, criminals, assault and murder, tyranc. Therefore, in a very real n, he no longer has any safety needs as active motivators. Just as a sated9 man no longer feels hungry, a safe man no longer feels endangered. If we wish to e the needs directly and clearly 55we must turn to ic or near-idividuals, and to the eid social underdogs10. Iweeremes, erceive the expressions of safety needs only in such phenomena as, for instahe on preference for a job with tenure11 and prote, the desire for 60a savings at, and for insurance of various kinds (medical, dental, unemployment, disability, old age).
The Safety Needs
If the physiologieeds are relatively well gratified7, there then emerges a of needs, which we may categorize roughly as the safety needs. 40All that has been said of the physiologieeds is equally true, although in lesr degree, of the desires. The anism may equally well be wholly dominated by them. They may rve as the almost exclusive anizers of behavior, recruiting8 all the capacities of the anism in their rvice, 45and we may then fairly describe the whole anism as a safety-eking meism.
The healthy, normal, fortunate adult in our culture is largely satisfied in his safety needs. The peaceful, smoothly running, ‘good’ society ordinarily makes its members feel safe enough from wild animals, 50extremes of temperature, criminals, assault and murder, tyranc. Therefore, in a very real n, he no longer has any safety needs as active motivators. Just as a sated9 man no longer feels hungry, a safe man no longer feels endangered. If we wish to e the needs directly and clearly 55we must turn to ic or near-idividuals, and to the eid social underdogs10. Iweeremes, erceive the expressions of safety needs only in such phenomena as, for instahe on preference for a job with tenure11 and prote, the desire for 60a savings at, and for insurance of various kinds (medical, dental, unemployment, disability, old age).