Staci L Parker

The Link Between Personality & Income Staci L Parker

According to Maslow, all individuals operate on five levels of needs: safety, shelter, social, esteem, and self-actualization. My research confirms that if basic needs are met, higher levels of the hierarchy are fulfilled. This theory is based on the premise that individuals are instinctively motivated by systems attached to fulfilling their beliefs and values, more so than income. Therefore, the impact of needs on personality affects the income of individuals as it pertains to fulfillment. In my research, I found that in addition to serving as a catalyst to fulfilling these needs, one common source specifically offered what Maslow introduced as self-actualization or the need to achieve on the highest level. The common source was Mentoring. In my study, need produced satisfaction in individuals that explained why some of the participants in my study experienced such high income levels, in a short time, while other participants achieved less income but experienced longevity. In my conclusion, I offered mentoring as a link to achieving, what my participants viewed as fulfillment. As a result, I found that mentoring was the most common catalyst of all of the other variables.