Abstract :
In this study entitled Positive Well-Being: The Needs Effects of Tris in Veronica Roth?s Divergent', the researcher takes the issue of the main character, Tris, who is trying to reach his new identity as a Dauntless, where she was known to be a Divergent before. Divergent existence is seriously threatened in the city of Chicago. Therefore, Tris tries to change his identity by practice to become a Dauntless. In reaching her Self-Actualization, Tris trained for months in the Dauntless compound until finally she became a true Dauntless. The purpose of the study is about how the character Tris develops when achieving her Self-Actualization as a Dauntless by looking at how she achieves her Self-Actualization as a Dauntless by seeing the fulfillment of his 5 Basic Human Needs. Later, Self-Actualization makes an impact on the emerging of the psychological well-being of Tris.
This study uses a qualitative method with Veronica Roth's Divergent as the primary data, while the secondary data is based on research journals and previous studies. By reading the entire contents of the novel, the researcher understands the contents of the novel and then portray it in the analysis by matching the contents of the novel with the theory used by the researcher. The researcher uses Abraham Maslow's Motivation Theory which explains the Hierarchy of Needs to pervade the problems analyzed in this thesis.
The results of this study indicate that the process of fulfilling Tris' needs to achieve Self-actualization has been fully fulfilled by the rise of several new characteristics that emerge as acceptance, naturalness, problem centering, the need for privacy, interpersonal relations, discrimination between the good and evil, and resistance to enculturation. Also, the developed characteristics is as the result of achieving the Self-actualization. After that, there are the psychological well-being that appear as the result of the needs fulfillment of Tris.