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b. Safety Needs
When one is satisfied with their physiological needs, they will feel the urge also to fulfil their safety needs. Each of the human beings in this world needs
the security in living their life. They need the feeling of being secured and safe as well as out of danger p. 40.
c. Love and Belongingness Needs
According to Maslow, love is a healthy affectionate relationship between people that include the mutual trust. It always requires the act of giving and
receiving the love itself pp. 40-41. Therefore, when the physical and safety needs are fulfilled, one will feel the needs to love, give and receiving love as well
as affection in his life.
d. Esteem Needs
According to Maslow, esteem needs are divided into two categories that are self-esteem and self-respects. Self-
esteem includes one‟s desire for confidence, the competence mastery, achievement, adequacy, independence and
freedom. On the other hands, self- respect will include one‟s prestige, recognition,
acceptance, attention, status, reputation and appreciation from other people. In addition to that, Maslow also says that if one‟s self-esteem is inadequate, that
person will have the feeling of inferiority and helplessness. It may result in the discouragement and possible neurotic behaviour p.42.
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e. Cognitive Needs
One of the characteristics of mutual health is curiosity. Therefore according to Maslow, it means the search of meaning, that are to understand
something, to systemise, to analyse, to find the relation and meanings, and to construct a system of values p. 43. In a simple word, it deals with the need for
knowledge and meaning.
f. The Aesthetic Needs
Human beings‟ needs for craving the beauty are deep and the ugliness makes them sick p.44. Therefore, in this study, the researcher needs to examine
the events that happen in Nyai Ontosoroh ‟s life that lead her to such behaviour.
After knowing them, the researcher can analyse Nyai Ontosoroh ‟s motivation
changing from the point whether she can fulfil her aesthetic needs in her life from the events that happen during her life and how they motivate her to do some
particular actions.
g. Self-actualisation Needs
The development and the growth of self-actualisation refer to the need for personal growth and discovery that present throughout a person‟s life Maslow,
1962. In Maslow‟s opinion, a person is always “changing” and never remains static. In self-actualisation a person comes to find a meaning to life that is
important to them. Therefore, Maslow 1971 urges that self-actualisation needs is
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