Psychological Need Satisfaction and Self-Actualization Abraham Maslow’s (1965) pioneering work on psychological well-being identified self-actualization as a need for “ongoing actualization of potentials, capacities, talents, as fulfillment of mission (or call, fate, destiny, or vocation), as a fuller knowledge of, and acceptance of, the person’s own intrinsic nature, as an increasing trend toward unity, integration, and synergy within the person” (p. 25).
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The Joyful Life: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Positive Psychology in the Time of a Pandemic.
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