Covid crisis dragged the individual at basic needs
- Indian Journal of Training and Development
- 50(4), Oct-Dec, 2020: p.12-16
In our day-to-day life, we use the term “need” as a specific desired attributes or outcomes. This need vary in different age groups. If we ask from a child about his/her need, he/ she will say a toy; similarly an adolescent may say a new branded phone and an adult may need a brand new car. In each of the above cases, the terms need denotes a particular higher level desire at a particular point of time. So we can undoubtedly say that that this higher level desire varies from time to time. In continuation of the above line we can say it gradually attains an upward moving mode, with the desire getting fulfilled with the time. As per Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of need which he propounded in 1943 in his paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation”. The one perspective of the theory describes about the five stages for human subsistence and satisfaction and the other perspective depicts how it is correlated with the motivation of an individual. But in these stages as propounded by Abraham Maslow, there is a need which can be termed as core basic needs. Which exist in every stage of life and we normally denote it with food, clothes and shelter. These needs are basically a kind of needs associated with the survival. If these needs don’t get fulfilled it creates a situation of life endangerment. These needs exist with a living being on this planet. As an individual, in persuasion of higher desire we forget the importance of basic needs in our life. During this Corona pandemic when whole world is navigating through this tough time. The need of an individual has squeezed to very essential things. The aim of this research is to understand that whether this crisis has brought down the sphere of need and if so, at what level? During this crisis what were the things which were treated as essential for them during this lockdown. Through this research we are aiming to understand and analyze what were the basic physiological and psychological needs of an individual. We are also aiming to find out the reasons behind it and its duration. – Reproduced