摘要:AbstractAccording to the major theories of motivation, the security need is placed among the basic human necessities. The article presents a research on teachers’ security needs in terms of protection. The study tries to assess important features of motivation of school and high school teachers. The focus is on security needs (or protection needs). Some correlations with other manifest or latent characteristics of the teachers were also made. The dynamics of the security needs was observed and several conclusions were drawn.