APA Dictionary of Psychology

a personality inventory for college students and adults in which the strength of 15 “manifest needs” is assessed on a forced-choice basis. The needs are achievement, order, deference, autonomy, exhibition, affection, succorance, sympathy, change, endurance, heterosexuality, aggression, intraception, abasement, and affiliation. [developed in the 1950s by Allen L. Edwards (1914–1994), U.S. psychologist, based on the needs described in the personality theory of Henry Alexander Murray]