Research has shown previous research involving the need to belong and the quality and quantity of a personal close relationships. The research involved students at a large university in the Southwest area. The results would indicate the need to belong scale (NTBS) which associated with lower quality "partial" relationships rather than high quality "whole" relationships (Pillow, D. R., Malone, G. P., & Hale, W. J. 2015). Included in this research you would see a great number of relationships and how it was affected from the need to belong scale (NTBS) showing that people were depressed (Pillow, D. R., Malone, G. P., & Hale, W. J. 2015).
Baumeister and Leary (1995) proposed that: "human beings have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships" (p. 497). Assuming this was the case, it showed that people had this high need to feel belonged and that they should work harder to bring satisfy to any relationships they were in and even though it would require them a high number of relationships compared to people who have a low level of the need to belong. …show more content…
R., Malone, G. P., & Hale, W. J. 2015). The research started off with two instruments proposed to assess the need the Need to Belong Scale (NTBS; Leary, Kelly, Cottrell, & Schreindorfer, 2013) and the Sense of Belonging Instrument-Antecedents (SOBI-A; Hagerty & Patusky, 1995). They comapared and contrast the measurements for debating the different approach/avoidance motives see Gable, 2006) in the need to
Baumeister and Leary (1995) proposed that: "human beings have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships" (p. 497). Assuming this was the case, it showed that people had this high need to feel belonged and that they should work harder to bring satisfy to any relationships they were in and even though it would require them a high number of relationships compared to people who have a low level of the need to belong. …show more content…
R., Malone, G. P., & Hale, W. J. 2015). The research started off with two instruments proposed to assess the need the Need to Belong Scale (NTBS; Leary, Kelly, Cottrell, & Schreindorfer, 2013) and the Sense of Belonging Instrument-Antecedents (SOBI-A; Hagerty & Patusky, 1995). They comapared and contrast the measurements for debating the different approach/avoidance motives see Gable, 2006) in the need to