Maslow's Attributes of the Self-Actualized
Person:
1. "More efficient perception of reality and more
comfortable relations with it."
2. Acceptance of self' others,
nature." ‑‑‑They
accept bodily needs and natural processes without disgust or shame, but also
appreciate the 'higher' qualities that help make up human nature.
3. Spontaneity: not weighed down by conventionality but can
capture "peak: experiences" of daily living.
4. Problem centering: they can lose themselves in authentic
problems without being preoccupied with themselves.
5. Detachment: they have a need for privacy and self‑sufficiency;
their friendships and their attachments to their family are not of the
clinging' intrusive' and possessive variety.
6.
7. Continued freshness of appreciation.
8. Limitless horizons: they usually express some concern with
the ultimate nature of reality' and transcendence as the ability to know it.
9. Social feeling: they have compassion for their fellow
brothers and sisters on the planet.
10. Deep but selective social relationships: they strive for
intimacy with their loved ones.
11.Democratic character structure:
they have "respect for any human being just because he is a human
individual"
12. Ethical certainty:
they have a clear insight into the appropriateness or the inappropriateness of
their acti ons.
13. Unhostile sense of humor.
14. creativeness.