Assignment 01

Course: PAD201
Sec: 05
ID:1813325630
Date: 08.04.2020
Submitted by: Ashraful islam shawon
Submitted to: Syeda lasna kabir

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Table of content

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1. Motivate Bangladesh citizen maintain quarantine 3-5

2. Motivational theories applied in this situation 5-7

3. References 8

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 Applied Motivational Theory in this Situation

Coronavirus outbreak is still risking the existence of humankind in different countries around the
world. Like the other countries of world, our Government has asked general people to stay at
home quarantine for a certain period to prevent the contagion of COVID-19 disease. Home
quarantine might feel like a holiday initially, but when it extends beyond a week, it might feel
like a prison unless you find some ways to keep the mind engaged. In a typical day, some elderly
people love to go for an evening-walk; some enjoys meeting their same-aged friends in a cafe or
tea stall; some visit local library; while some senior citizens travel across the town to manage the
perfect seed for their garden. Home quarantine prohibits them doing their favorite activities.
Unlike youngsters, the old people have limited options for recreation during home quarantine.
Bangladesh government using mass media to motivate the citizen to maintain the home
quarantine in many ways.

 Reading Books

By the wings of imagination, humankind can travel beyond their home, country, region or even
universe. Unlike the internet-freak current young generation, most of the elderly persons get
immense pleasure in reading books. You can buy your senior family members some novels
written by their favorite writers. What is more? You can also hearten your adorable parents to
read bed time stories to their grandchildren which can make them feel blissful.

 Story Telling Session

People get old with memories – composed of success, failure, joy and sorrows – which can be a
pathway of learning for their descendants. Our aged family members have always something
useful to teach us through the lens of their own life-experience. You can inspire the elderly
members to share their memories with the young members of your family. If you have kids at
home, you can fix a story telling session, when the grandparent will tell fairy tales or real-life
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stories to their grandchildren. It will strengthen the bonding between young and old souls of your
family which is very essential to make their quarantine period pleasant.

 Doing Exercise, Yoga and Meditation

Considering the level of physical strength of your elderly family members, you can persuade
them in doing some morning exercises and workouts. Furthermore, you can teach your parents
and other senior relatives some Yoga poses which will make them feel better both physically and
emotionally. If workouts seem difficult for their old bodies, you can motivate them in practicing
meditation which will pacify their mind releasing anxieties caused by coronavirus pandemic.

 Doing Indoor Sports

The old people who love outdoor sports like Golf, but are now getting bored inside home due to
coronavirus, can play indoor games. To allow your elder parents some fun activities, you can
bring several family members to play carom board game, chess game or ludu game. If you have
enough space at home, arrange an indoor ping pong table, or indoor table tennis table which will
boost up the physical strength of your elderly parents in addition to making them cheer up.

 Writing a Diary

Wring special feelings, and/or day to day memories is another great way to release the
Coronavirus stress. Why don’t you encourage the elderly family members to start writing a
diary? It will not only keep their mind occupied but also prevent them from the urge of going
outside home to kill their loneliness.

 Caring Indoor Plants

If you have a space in your roof or balcony with enough sunlight exposure, plant some trees.
And ask for help to your elderly parents in watering those plants regularly. Thus you can help
them find a new way to shower their love and care to a living being.

 Watching Old Classic Movies

The senior citizens rarely find interest in playing video games. Rather they love to watch movies.
To escape the anxiety due to the current epidemic of COVID-19 disease, you can persuade your

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old parents and relative not to watch the news all day long. Instead, you can select them some
classic movies which can keep them smiling like old times.

 Trying What Works for Them

Every individual has different personality traits. You can encourage your elderly parents trying
creative things depending on their special individual interest. For instance, your mother can find
joy in trying a new recipe; while your old man may enjoy making his grand kid a paper toy. In
simple words, support them in trying things which can make them happy. And let them doing
what really works for them.

In this way Bangladesh government can motivate citizen to maintain the home quarantine.

In this situation I think Hierarchy theory:(Abraham Maslow) appropriate to apply in this

situation. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow
in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological. In order to better
understand what motivates human beings, Maslow proposed that human needs can be organized
into a hierarchy. This hierarchy ranges from more concrete needs such as food and water to
abstract concepts such as self-fulfillment. According to Maslow, when a lower need is met, the
next need on the hierarchy becomes our focus of attention.

These are the five categories of needs according to Maslow:

 Physiological

These refer to basic physical needs like drinking when thirsty or eating when hungry. According
to Maslow, some of these needs involve our efforts to meet the body’s need for homeostasis; that
is, maintaining consistent levels in different bodily systems (for example, maintaining a body
temperature of 98.6°).1

Maslow considered physiological needs to be the most essential of our needs. If someone is
lacking in more than one need, they’re likely to try to meet these physiological needs first. For

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example, if someone is extremely hungry, it’s hard to focus on anything else besides food.
Another example of a physiological need would be the need for adequate sleep.

 Safety

Once people’s physiological requirements are met, the next need that arises is a safe
environment. Our safety needs are apparent even early in childhood, as children have a need for
safe and predictable environments and typically react with fear or anxiety when these are not
met. Maslow pointed out that in adults living in developed nations, safety needs are more
apparent in emergency situations (e.g. war and disasters), but this need can also explain why we
tend to prefer the familiar or why we do things like purchase insurance and contribute to a
savings account.

 Love and Belonging

According to Maslow, the next need in the hierarchy involves feeling loved and accepted. This
need includes both romantic relationships as well as ties to friends and family members. It also
includes our need to feel that we belong to a social group. Importantly, this need encompasses
both feeling loved and feeling love towards others.

Since Maslow’s time, researchers have continued to explore how love and belonging needs
impact well-being. For example, having social connections is related to better physical health
and, conversely, feeling isolated (i.e. having unmet belonging needs) has negative consequences
for health and well-being.2

 Esteem

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Our esteem needs involve the desire to feel good about ourselves. According to Maslow, esteem
needs include two components. The first involves feeling self-confidence and feeling good about
oneself. The second component involves feeling valued by others; that is, feeling that our
achievements and contributions have been recognized by other people. When people’s esteem
needs are met, they feel confident and see their contributions and achievements as valuable and
important. However, when their esteem needs are not met, they may experience what
psychologist Alfred Adler called “feelings of inferiority.”

 Self-Actualization

Self-actualization refers to feeling fulfilled, or feeling that we are living up to our potential. One
unique feature of self-actualization is that it looks different for everyone. For one person, self-
actualization might involve helping others; for another person, it might involve achievements in
an artistic or creative field. Essentially, self-actualization means feeling that we are doing what
we believe we are meant to do. According to Maslow, achieving self-actualization is relatively
rare, and his examples of famous self-actualized individuals include Abraham Lincoln, Albert
Einstein, and Mother Teresa.

Put in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy: While the fiscal fallout of the corona pandemic will be
nothing short of enormous, that must take a back seat to the more imminent health crisis that we
are facing as a broader community. We can’t worry about higher-level needs when we’ve got
physiological and safety needs that need to be addressed. In thinking this way, it occurred to me
that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs provides a powerful and useful model for understanding the
large-scale psychological effects of the coronavirus. For so many of us, if not all of us, the
uncertain future of the effects of this virus are weighing heavily on our minds. In terms of
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, you may have gone from working on love needs to safety needs at
the drop of a hat. And such an abrupt and unanticipated change in one’s basic needs can, of
course, be stressful.

So my point of view hierarchy theory will be appropriate to be applied this situation.

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References

 Baumeister, Roy F., and Mark R. Leary. “The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal
Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation.” Psychological Bulletin 117.3 (1995):
97-529. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7777651

 Kremer, William, and Claudia Hammond. “Abraham Maslow and the Pyramid That
Beguiled Business.” BBC (2013, Sep. 1). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-
23902918

 Maslow, Abraham Harold. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” Psychological

Review 50.4 (1943): 370-396. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1943-03751-001

 Maslow, A.H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review. 50 (4):

370–96.