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collaboration with others for social development rather than for personal gain, as it is part of human nature and some amount of it exists in everyone. Adler in
Phares, 1988: 93, says that social interest is a predisposition, nurtured by experience to contribute to society.
Naturally, man is a social creature where realizes his position as a free individual. In his efforts to develop himself, he must also consider the existence
and the importance of his society. Since a man was born, he automatically becomes a member of society. If his social feeling can develop naturally; he will
be able to make an adaptation with his living environments appropriately. Hall and Lindzey 1970: 125 acknowledge that a man should live among others,
where he interacts with others in his society that make his behavior is always influenced by his society.
According to Hall and Lindzey 1985: 147, A dler’s concept of social
interest is not easy to define. It can be translated in many different ways and the wider meaning of the concept is still questioned. For this study purposes, we will
define social interest as caring and concerning movement that continues to guide a
person’s behavior.
6. Creative Power
Creative power is the influence of any environment toward a person in facing the problem of life. Each person is gifted with freedom to create their own
lifestyle. People are responsible for who they are and how they behave in their life
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no matter what. This power of life is responsible for achieving person’s life goal
and contributes to the development of social interest. The creative power gives meaning to life, as it creates the goal as the future
objective which needs to be completed. Hall and Lindzey, 1970: 166 stated that it is the principle of human life, as it develops each person to be uniquely stylized
and dynamically unified. The uniquely stylized person implies their own personality, as the sum of experiences and inheritances.
Adler in Hjelle and Zeigler, 1992: 150 explains that the concept of the creative underlining his belief that human beings are masters of their own fate. It
creates freedom which enables a person to choose their experience, whether they choose pain, joy, or anxiety, or to defend themselves against these experiences by
creating various safeguarding actions.
C. Theory of Human Motivation
The theory of human motivation is created by Abraham Maslow in 1943. He believed that people possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or
unconscious desires. He also acknowledged that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfill the next one, and
so on. Maslow believes that every person is capable and unconsciously has the
desire to move up the hierarchy toward a level of self-actualization 1943. Unfortunately, the moving progress is often interrupted by the failure to meet
