We explain what maturity is according to the Royal Spanish Academy and at what age it is reached. Also, what are the traits of immaturity.
What is maturity?
Human maturity, biologically speaking, is a state reached when physical and sexual development is complete. This state is reached in most species.
According to the Royal Spanish Academy, the term maturity refers to a state of psychosocial development of the person, an optimal state of fruits and vegetables after harvesting and an age between youth and old age.
Affective maturity refers to adaptation to a social environment, empathy and temperance. Empathy is important in relationships with others to understand them, be more sensitive to the needs of others and to create stronger bonds. Beyond the subjective traits of personality, we have or do not have a degree of maturity that allows or prevents us connect optimally with others.
If we talk about the formation of personality, we cannot forget the level of influence that parents have and the environment in which a child grows up. If you grow up in an environment full of affection and acceptance, you will learn to be tolerant of others. If you see strong wills and good temper in your references, perhaps you will absorb those qualities from their example or see them as desirable and fight to achieve them.
See also: Life project
At what age is maturity reached?
In psychological terms, There is no age that determines emotional maturity. This type of maturity is detected with specific attitudes such as the ability to have critical thinking, reasonable behavior, accept criticism and provide it in a polite manner.
A mature person accepts the consequences of his actions is responsible. Tolerance and lack of illogical reactions are also characteristic features of emotional maturity. In any case, maturity can be partial in some aspects of the personality and not in all.
The virtues and behaviors necessary to achieve maturity are learned primarily at home, and if parents provide too many comforts, young people may not learn about responsibility and may not be able to perform basic tasks in the future. It is very important to transmit attitudinal values to a child by example, so that they practice them from an early age and lay solid foundations in their personality. Bad influences can affect behavior in a short time.
Nowadays young people take longer to reach maturity and independence than in previous generations. Perhaps this speaks of the helplessness that young people from previous generations suffered, but it is likely that the observation focuses on the excess of comforts that today's teenagers enjoy.
The figures show that the usual age for contracting the commitment of marriage has been raised the same thing happens with parenthood. Current generations of young people stay in their homes longer, marry later or do not marry at all.
Traits of immaturity
When a person is immature, we can detect it through their actions.
It is true that all people are very different from each other, and that all ages can be lived in different ways, but it will not be difficult for us to detect immaturity based on the sum of some characteristic features:
- Susceptibility. Susceptible people are easily offended, which is directly related to low self-esteem.
- Insecurity The most perfectionist people seek security in control of details because they lack security in other aspects of their personality.
- Emotional instability It's easy to see emotional highs and lows as moments of deep sadness and then expressions of joy. These people get bored and change direction easily.
- Pessimism Feeling that everything will go wrong: This attitude harms any project you want to carry out or goal you want to achieve.
- Exacerbated emotional responses. Individuals who demonstrate extreme responses will have irresponsible and unfriendly tendencies. This is closely related to instability.
- Low tolerance for setbacks or accidents Immaturity can express itself in both frustration and anger when setbacks are suffered or things do not go as expected.
- Extroversion. Too much relationship with others and too little self-knowledge.
- Nervousness and anguish
- Insecurity Immature people doubt a lot and depend on others.
- Rigidity Rigid people have difficulty learning new things, moving, and building deep bonds.
