Baumeister and Leary (1995) proposed that: "human beings have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships" (p. 497). Assuming this was the case, it showed that people had this high need to feel belonged and that they should work harder to bring satisfy to any relationships they were in and even though it would require them a high number of relationships compared to people who have a low level of the need to belong. …show more content…
R., Malone, G. P., & Hale, W. J. 2015). The research started off with two instruments proposed to assess the need the Need to Belong Scale (NTBS; Leary, Kelly, Cottrell, & Schreindorfer, 2013) and the Sense of Belonging Instrument-Antecedents (SOBI-A; Hagerty & Patusky, 1995). They comapared and contrast the measurements for debating the different approach/avoidance motives see Gable, 2006) in the need to