Maturity And Development In Adulthood

What exactly is maturity? Often times, we classify maturity without understanding the full concept. “Sarah looks so mature, and at such a young age.” Every day, people toss the word around without understanding its full meaning. Maturity remains not static. Meaning it continuously evolves as people travel through life and develop from life experiences and personal hardships. People cannot learn maturity in school or from a commercial. Without understanding what maturity is, people fail to learn from issues that will eventually lead them into maturity. From infancy, to childhood, to adolescence, and finally into adulthood people emerge from personal and behavioral characteristics and hopefully develop into full development, otherwise known as …show more content…
But most people interpret maturity as ever changing. For example, as people experience new challenges and hardships, they continue their trek into maturity. According to Maslow's notion of self-actualization, “Full maturity or full personal development, if it can be defined, is the ultimate goal of human development” (Hardy, 2003, pg.1). To most people, full development is reached after they perish. In order to reach full maturity, individuals must first experience physical and emotional maturity. As individuals travel from infancy into adulthood emotional and physical maturity occurs at different points of their …show more content…
This type of maturity signifies the most valuable type of maturity individuals will experience. How individuals respond to situations, controls emotions, and the ability to behave in an adult-like manner constitutes whether the induvial acquires emotional maturity. The authors of Emotional Maturity of Medical Students Impacting Their Adult Learning Skills in a Newly Established Public Medical School at the East Coast of Malaysian Peninsula explained, "Emotional maturity means a higher state of consciousness, guided by what one senses, feels, and intuits, and one’s heart” (Bhagat, Haque, Bakar, Husain, & Khairi, 2016, pg. 1). The way an individual reacts to a situation correlates to their childhood, emotions towards the subject, and past experiences. For example, the negative reaction most baby boomers feel towards technology does not mean they lack emotionally maturity. It simply means, their background and way they were raised remains different than one of someone born in the two thousands. Morals and life lessons individuals learn at a young age, often define their attitudes towards certain