Advantages

• Support for Roger's ideas of 'conditions of worth'

  • Research with adolescents has shown that individuals who experience conditional positive regard are more likely to display more 'false self behaviour' - Harter et al (96) found teens who feel they have to fulfil certain conditions in order to gain their parents' approval frequently end up not liking themselves
• Committed to qualitative research methods and focus on the self - reminds us that people have minds and that they might be worth studying
• Provided non-biological theories of motivation, choosing to understand motivation in terms of free will and psychology not biology
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs

  Widely adapted within education - relevance appears to stem from one of the overarching aims of educations which is to facilitate learning and make this process meaningful to an individual - impacting upon and becoming useful to their lives
• Example: temperature in a learning environment was low - individuals would be focused upon rectifying this than learning - suggests students must be shown that they're valued and respected in the classroom and the teacher should create a supportive environment

  Students with low self-esteem will not progress academically at an optimum rate until their self-esteem is strengthened