Article: Women with breast cancer have a hard time building self-esteem after beginning chemotherapy. This article explains how women usually want to go back to their normal appearance. Chemotherapy causes drastic changes to a woman's appearance such as hair loss, skin discoloration, and dry skin. To gain their self-esteem, women get assistance by participating in the Look Good, Feel Better program that offers beauty tips from hair and makeup professionals. Women in the program have stated that once they regained their beauty routine their spirits improved.
Spartanburg Herald Journal 2009
Relation: I chose this article because it relates to chapter 9 which discusses motivation and emotion. The women must maintain their appearance to increase their self-esteem. In this chapter, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can be applied to this situation because the women must satisfy the basic need, which is a physical need of beauty. The desire of becoming beautiful again to gain self-actualization, the result of achieving personality fulfillment, has to be met so the women who survived breast cancer can be happy again.
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