Ten-year-old haley tells her mom that she feels bad and lonely because she does not have a "best" friend in school. haley is not having her need for met at school.

Haley is not having her need for "affiliation" met at school

Individuals vary from each other in the amount they get a kick out of the chance to connect with other individuals. A few people abstain from being distant from everyone else, put a high need on their fellowships, and make a decent attempt to please other individuals. Others are the exact inverse: They are substance to be separated from everyone else, they don't put much exertion into their associations with other individuals, and they aren't exceptionally worried about fulfilling other individuals. Henry Murray instituted the term need for affiliation to separate individuals who are by and large inviting, cordial, agreeable, and anxious to join bunches from the individuals who are threatening, held, and reserved.

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there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.