Study of Quantitative Model for Maslow’s View of Humanity Happiness

Abstract

Maslow's view of Humanity Happiness argues that people feel happy when their needs are satisfied in a certain level. For exploring the quantitative evaluation methods of humanity happiness, firstly, based on the theories of Humanity Happiness and Fuzzy Sets, the concept "need-satisfied membership" is proposed to describe subjective feelings of individual happiness quantitatively. Secondly, a comprehensive happiness membership indicator system is constructed. Its indicator weights can be computed based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. And then the individual comprehensive happiness can be analyzed quantitatively. Furthermore, the general happiness membership function model as a more scientific measurement method is proposed for quantitatively analyzing the happiness of specific people in specific areas.

The Social World of Self-Actualizing People: Reflections by Maslow’s Biographer

“…Although Maslow’s nexus was the United States and he never traveled beyond the Americas, his ideas on human personality and its potentialities increasingly resonate around the world. In recent years, for example, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has generated growing research in Southeast Asia (see Saeednia, 2011; Wang, Chen, & Chen, 2016, Wei, Xie, & Hong, 2016). Among Maslow’s most widely known constructs is that of self-actualization, which essentially posits that all individuals have the capacity to develop and fulfill their innate potentials.…”