Self-Actualization as Related to Age of Faculty Members at a Large Midwestern University

Abstract

Maslow suggested that individuals were more likely to realize levels of self-actualization as they became older. The Personal Orientation Inventory was administered to a random sample of 290 faculty members of a midwestern university to examine trends for self-actualization as related to age. Polynomial regression analysis yielded no trends for self-actualization and age, a finding which contradicts Maslow's earlier hypothesis that self-actualization increases with age.