Maslow's Theory: The Three Stages Of Our Development Of Personality

Personality is comprised of, our ability to feel accepted, to feel as though we belong and to be able to share our worth. As children we are born without an ability to feed, fight, or figure for ourselves. In order for us to survive our childhood, we must be accepted by someone that is willing to do these things for us. After being accepted by someone, our ability to feel as though we belong is the most crucial and longest stage of our development of personality. Finally once we feel our acceptance, we are able to share our self worth, through our abilities to help others in achieving these stages. It is within these three major stages that you will find nine minor stages, once completed, these stages allow us the ability to find self …show more content…
On the contrary this theory allows us to be part of the change not focusing on any negativity nut positively rewarding us for working on progress much like the theories of Maslow’s, Bandura, Kelly and Allport to name a few. Most correlations are found with Maslow’s theory, “He focused on psychological health rather than illness, growth rather than stagnation, virtues and potentials rather than weaknesses and limitations. He had a strong sense of confidence in our ability to shape our lives and our society (Schultz & Schultz, 2013).” In writing this theory I relied heavily on my own personal experiences, many of the concepts stem from situations that I have faced growing up. My theory explains some of the hardships and battles that I have been able to overcome through reflection and growth. In reading our text it became very apparent that most of the theorist relied heavily on their personal experience in developing their theories, therefore, in that sense they are similar. The theories that do not fall inline with my theory are the more focused on psychoanalysis, for example Freud believed