Ressentiment (French pronunciation: â), in philosophy and psychology, is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. It is the French word for resentment (from Latin intensive prefix 're', and 'sentir' to feel).
Watson's definition of environment/society addresses the idea that nurses have existed in every society, and that a caring attitude is transmitted from generation to generation by the culture of the nursing profession as a unique way of coping with its environment.
Updated May 10, 2016. American psychologist Henry Murray (1893-1988) developed a theory of personality that was organized in terms of motives, presses and needs. Murray described a needs as a potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances (1938).