Title MindArc Depths 7–8: Four Needs, Sixteen Personality Types, and Need Approach
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This article is a part article of the MindArc integrative mind architecture on the third layer, the Structure and Constraint layer, which has two depths: Reusable Organization (D7) and Deep Generative Constraint (D8). Depth 7 crosses Guide Organization (C7.1) with Focus Organization (C7.2) to give the four cells of Core Values and Needs (R7a), which correspond to four needs: Competence, Acceptance, Preparedness, and Freedom. Depth 8 crosses the Required Condition (C8.1) with the Association Constraint (C8.2) to give four types of Conditional Attachment (R8a), and crosses the Fullness View (C8.3) with the Changeability Belief (C8.4) to give four Inner Courses (R8b): Growing, Resting, Seeking, and Suffering. The Conditional Attachment together with the Inner Course gives 16 Condition States (R8), and the need together with the Inner Course toward the condition behind it gives the 16 cells of the Need Approach (R7–8), the cross-depth resultant of this layer. The article also presents what the separate book for Depths 7–8 adds to the model: 16 personality types from the ranking of the four needs, three self-images on one condition, and five levels of condition intensity, which tell how tightly a person holds a condition; whether the person pushes in or pulls back is read from the Inner Course, and the separate book describes this direction only when the Inner Course is Seeking or Suffering. The article separates research into two groups. The first studies concepts of the same form directly: basic needs, person and thing orientations, contingencies of self-worth, and the belief that a person's attributes can change. The second is related work. The article also identifies the parts that are proposals of the model and of the separate book. The third layer is read only from many real events and has not yet been tested empirically. The article proposes five testable hypotheses for this layer. All state names and cell names describe what people commonly experience; they are not a diagnosis. This article is a part article of the MindArc overview article (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23578802). The record holds the article in Thai and English.
Authors: Jirakankorn, Akira, Lokittikun, Suppakit
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225453893