The article is an attempt at describing the relation between resilience and needs. It is based on the assumption that these are two sets of variables vital for harmonious development that resonate with each other in a peculiar manner. Resilience and human needs are both contextually and hereditarily conditioned, but the relation between them seems not necessarily a linear one. In adults, resilience might be a significant medium in the satisfaction of needs and even condition them. In children, however, the relation between these variables is different. A child is born with certain potential determining its level of resilience, but deprivation of their key needs, especially during first years, might simply impair their development or disturb its synchronisation. The main issue discussed in this article is the basis of the relation between resilience and the needs that must be satisfied at school. The article contains observations made while carrying out an experimental project that enables the youngest pupils to access and fulfil their multidimensional needs.

Introduction: This paper focuses on providing social care to a close relative. It is crucial in social services. Design: qualitative methodology – method of semi-structured interviews. Methods: respondents were selected to satisfy specific criteria. Particularly, these criteria were the care of a close relative who was assigned level III or IV care benefits. Another criterion according to which we selected respondents was that the carer belonged to the age group in which a person is still usually economically active. The research sample consisted of 6 respondents. Results: Based on the data analysis, we created categories to present the content of semi-structured interviews. Needs focusing on the body carried over into maintenance of one’s own physical and mental health are: the need for safety, the need for acceptance, the need for acknowledgement and respect, and the need for self-fulfilment and perspective. Conclusions: It is important to identify the care of a close relative, the specifics and needs, in the interests of configuring effective management of medical, psychological and social care, and creation of a system of social protection.

This paper deals with the role of needs and specific personality dimensions as determinants of creative (poetic) activity among youth. The study is based on Henry A. Murray and Morris I. Stein’s theory, according to which needs represent forces for action and are classified by the psychologists into primary (viscerogenic) and secondary (psychogenic) ones, or explicit and implicit (hidden) needs. An instrument called Stein’s Self-Portrait (also known as “The Needs and aspirations”) was used to investigate Murray’s system of needs. The structure of personality was measured using the Five Factor Model of Personality (also known as the “Big Five Model”) devised by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae. The model describes five fundamental dimensions (factors) of personality such as: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Analysis of the study results reveals a specific hierarchy of needs ( the prevailing ones include creative needs, social needs, the need to seek and enjoy sensuous impressions, the need for achievement and the need for compensation), as well as points to the dominating personality dimensions which correlate with creative activity (openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness).