1982_Self-Actualization Profile of Eleanor Roosevelt

Piechowski and Tyska present a detailed case study of Eleanor Roosevelt as a self-actualizing individual, following Piechowski’s (1978) study of Saint-Exupéry. Analysis of 197 biographical statements produced a self-actualization profile strikingly similar to Saint-Exupéry’s, despite their representing Maslow’s two proposed types—the nontranscending “doer” and the transcending “seer.” The study identified two new traits not in […]