The DVD appears to have merit as an efficient and appealing alternative to brief classroom-based diabetes education, and the hybrid design is recommended to provide estimates of programme reach.

Maslow's (1970) theory of motivation suggests that there are five basic classes of needs and that they are hierarchically organized as follows: physiological, security, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. Each need level is prepotent to the next higher need level. This means that an individual initially attempts to satisfy his or her physiological needs, and only when they are satisfied does the individual attempt to satisfy security needs. Once security needs are satisfied the individual attempts to satisfy belongingness needs and so on. Although a number of studies have shown that satisfaction of physiological (1940; 1942) facilitates self-actualization, there is no evidence demonstrating that these lower needs form the hierarchy specified by Maslow. The purpose of the study reported below was to test the hierarchical aspect of Maslow's theory of motivation.To accomplish this end, student subjects (36 males, 76 females) were given self-report inventories: the Security-Insecurity Scale of Maslow et al. (1952); a belongingness scale devised by the authors; Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Scale; and Shostrom's (1965) measure of self-actualization, the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Physiological need satisfaction was not measured because it was assumed that the subjects' physiological needs were satisfied.It was hypothesized that subjects scoring above the median on one of these measure of need satisfaction would obtain significantly higher average scores on all of the measures of need satisfaction further up the hierarchy than subjects scoring below the median. Specifically, three hypotheses were made: Hypothesis 1. Subjects scoring above the median on the measure of security need satisfaction would obtain significantly higher average belongingness satisfaction, esteem satisfaction, and self-actualization scores than subjects scoring below the median on the security measure. 1 The authors would like to thank Kay Hoyenga for her helpful comments concerning the manuscript.

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