As a well-educated and highly esteemed businesswoman, delores feels she has accomplished a great deal in her life. she decides that she would like to give back to the community, so she makes a sizable endowment to the local conservatory. she is also using her professional influence to draw the public’s attention to the needs of children who have cancer. abraham maslow would probably say that delores has reached the stage of his need hierarchy.

self-actualization                                  

Explanation:

Self-actualization: The word self-actualization is given by Abraham Maslow in his theory of hierarchy of needs. According to him, self-actualization is the highest level of need and a person can only reach this stage if he has already fulfilled the initial needs.

Abraham Maslow describes self-actualization as the ability of a person to become the finest version of himself or herself. In other words, the tendency or desire of a person to become everything the person is capable of becoming. It represents a person's need for personal growth throughout life.

Example: A poet should write poems if he wants to be happy and satisfied.