A need is the demand or the desire to create a felt and/or actual lack remedy.

In the psychology

Motivation psychology

The expression need is used in the psychology for two different circumstances: for a time-stable arrangement on the one hand and for the current condition of an organism on the other hand.

• Need as arrangement: In the motivation psychology a need (English need) is a relatively time-stable characteristic of an organism, which indicates its inclination to pursue a certain class from goals to. With humans a need is a personality characteristic and motive is called. An example of such a motive is the motive for achievement (English need for achievement).

• Need as condition: Sometimes the expression "“need"” is used in the sense of a physiological or psychological lack condition, which is connected with striving for need satisfaction.

Due to the double meaning of the expression "“need"” it is advisable to use after possibility the terms motive (for the personality characteristic) and motivation (for the current condition).

Humanisti tradition

From the necessity to find a simply applicable method for conflict resolution Mars-resounds rose mountain, pupil of the Humanists Carl Rogers developed the model of force-free communication (GRP). From this model developed a need term, which can be used in addition to Defitionen from the motivation psychology.

Accordingly needs of different individuals, but the strategies never oppose themselves for the fulfilment of the needs to be only used. If one wants to get a deeper view of the causes of the conflict, needs must be separated clearly from strategies.

Humans have needs, which become apparent by feelings in each moment. It here distinctive between feelings, which indicate that needs are fulfilled and feelings, which indicate that needs are not fulfilled.

Some needs in core terms are together calm according to this model: Physical needs - security - understanding (or Empathie) - creativity - love, - play - recovery - autonomy - sense.

Maslow need pyramid

The Maslow need pyramid is based in a model developed by the US-American psychologist Abraham Maslow, in order to describe motivations from humans to. The human needs form the "“stages"” for the pyramid and develop in accordance with this linear theory one on the other. Humans therefore try to satisfy first the needs of the low stages before the next stages attain meaning

In the economic science

In the terminology of the economic science needs represent the preliminary stage of the need - thus the demand to eliminate a lack. From a need a need becomes if an adequate purchasing power stands for the need to the side. The need becomes the demand, if with existing purchasing power at the market by purchase intention one makes actually valid.

The economic needs of humans can be divided into three ranges, their sequence a prioritization during the dispatching made possible by goods:

• Existence needs cover among other things the need after sufficient food, liquid, dwelling and security,
• Basic needs cover among other things the need after health, environment and clothes and something similar,
• Luxury needs cannot be described against it generalized. They depend on the conditions of the respective society. So the international mobility can be regarded already as basic need, in other societies against it still than luxury need in a modern western economy. Colour television sets and PCs cannot be seized for example in Germany, since one understands them as basic needs.

A majority of the economy lives not only on the fulfilment, but also on waking and production of needs - so the medium economy, the consumer goods and luxury economy as well as the tourism and in particular the advertising economy.

See also

• Poverty
• Askese
• Quartiarisierung
• Maslow need pyramid
• Force-free communication

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