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a person's evaluation about his or her own worthiness is called
A person's evaluation about his or her own worthiness is called self-esteem.
where is esteem on maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Self esteem comes before self actualization or second from the top of Maslow's pyramid.
where was maslow's hierarchy of needs published?
Maslow's hierarchy of needs was published in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation in Psychological Review.

Question: what is the goal of the theory?
Self-contained rewrite: what is the goal of maslow's hierarchy of needs?