I want to know what others see as practical signs of maturity especially in the context of family relationships. I am also wondering if maturity is connected to the moral life in terms of consideration for others, etc. What are the signs of human maturity? Is it the same for men, for women? Or is it different? Is maturity linked to morality? How?
Sociology professor Tony Campolo said, “I am convinced we don’t live in a generation of bad kids. We live in a generation of kids who know too much too soon.”
Some Marks of Maturity as under:
1. A mature person is able to keep long-term commitments.
2. A mature person is unshaken by flattery or criticism.
3. A mature person possesses a spirit of humility.
4. A mature person’s decisions are based on character not feelings.
5. A mature person expresses gratitude consistently.
6. A mature person knows how to prioritize others before themselves.
7. A mature person seeks wisdom before acting.
Finally, a mature person is teachable. They don’t presume they have all the answers. The wiser they get the more they realize they need more wisdom. They’re not ashamed of seeking counsel from adults (teachers, parents, coaches) or from other sources. Only the wise seek wisdom.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/artificial-maturity/201211/the-marks-maturity
25 Signs of Maturity: How Mature Are You?
"Do you think there is a certain age at which maturity sets in? Could it be 20? 40? 70? In my personal experiences, I’ve observed that age has little or nothing to do with it. I have met young people who are mature well beyond their years, and I’ve known older folks who act childish, only thinking about themselves. So the question is: What are the character traits that show maturity? And do “mature” people exhibit them 100% of the time?..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-labermeier/25-signs-of-maturity_b_6423960.html
Sociology professor Tony Campolo said, “I am convinced we don’t live in a generation of bad kids. We live in a generation of kids who know too much too soon.”
Some Marks of Maturity as under:
1. A mature person is able to keep long-term commitments.
2. A mature person is unshaken by flattery or criticism.
3. A mature person possesses a spirit of humility.
4. A mature person’s decisions are based on character not feelings.
5. A mature person expresses gratitude consistently.
6. A mature person knows how to prioritize others before themselves.
7. A mature person seeks wisdom before acting.
Finally, a mature person is teachable. They don’t presume they have all the answers. The wiser they get the more they realize they need more wisdom. They’re not ashamed of seeking counsel from adults (teachers, parents, coaches) or from other sources. Only the wise seek wisdom.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/artificial-maturity/201211/the-marks-maturity
Dear Rose N.,
I think you mean with human maturity, the human life experiences.These fill up from the interaction of the human being with the society In which one lives (to this of course also belongs to the family). Moral is based, in my opinion, on the life experiences, on the morals of society (family, clan) and on the history (of people, of family, of clan). Often, people have difficulty adapting to the morals of another society (escape, emigration, etc.).
Have a good time
Michael Lersow
Practically, a matured person is accountable in terms of morality. If no morality , where is the maturity. A small kid is immature enough to make pranks and some unacceptable things primitive though.
Practical signs of maturity are the knowledge of our limits, the respect of opinions of others, the knowledge that all run and go away.
Is maturity connected to the moral life ? I do not think.
Wisdom could be thought of as the culmination of the maturation process:
Article The wise stance in human geography
Article Learning Wisdom Through Geographical Dislocations
Thank you for the invitation.
'Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.'
-Frank Yerby
Regards
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
---- Karl Rahner
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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
---- Samuel Ullman
Dear Madam, Maturity of a human is like sharpening the sword --- it happens with a set duration of time by all experiences building the wall of safety -- which can be called as maturity -- where as Morality is the way the human up bringing with classic foundation of basic respect to humanity and all other respectable principles to live as a Good human in this earth and that is like the handle of the sword --- A better handle --( GOOD MORAL HUMAN) you can sharpen the sword for ever to protect you ( MATURITY)
Thanks.
Dear Colleagues,
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
---- Martha Graham
Maturity in family relations (based on your questions) has to do with appreciable progress in terms of self-control, discipline, integrity, love, tolerance, sacrifice, etc. It may or may not come with age, and it has little or nothing to do with being a man or woman.
Maturity remains an assets for every individual but we have not consider that every human beings are mature enough to carry out their action of life. Person not taking actions without seriousness of the responsibility their action may turn out to be in matured very often find such person as an object of ridiculous .
Maturity is a thinking process ,we have to cultivate it right from our earliest stages as it is necessary that in subsequent period of time our mature thinking & behavior are to be play an very important part for taking our action in light line & also judicious way .
This is my personal opinion
Is maturity linked to morality?
Yes maturity can link to morality. As a person becomes more mature (wiser), his or her morality increases - reason being a mature person will have more exposure, experience, learning, responsibility, have a more discerning heart etc. to decide / do what is right & wrong.
The word "mature" above is not merely referring to adulthood because albeit a person has reached adulthood, his / her mind can be corrupted that can prompt him or her to commit immoral acts.
It depends on the family traditions , ethical code i.e., on upbringing.
Maturity is morphologically related to growth and it brings in experience, morality and generosity.
For an ordinary person, allowing for normal differences due to societal norms, family etc, I think there is such a thing as ethical maturation. By this I mean that there is a developmental period where the tenets of one's ethics are developed, a kind of ethical adolescence, after that there is a maturing through a development of cognitive framework, perhaps wisdom, by which one applies the ethical tenets developed earlier. As an older male with a good/strong set of ethical standards, I am aware of getting better at applying those standards In my day to day existence, most likely due to greater cognitive ability/framework/wisdom.
Dear all,
I will say, some one is mature when he/she has a deeper within and wider sphere of consciousness and of characters that transcend the aura of self and more reason based in actions than emotions. It is when the person puts wisdom at the forefront to navigate unknown territories of events of life in a right direction than foolishness. A person is mature when he/she develops blindness to features of surfaces, differentiates ideas from persons, considers humanity and issues of others as equally important, if not more to him/her and has lesser appetite to greed and self promoting.
In general true maturity is not related to age, the are many signs and some of the important ones are:
1. Can realize the consequence of actions before act
2. Committed
3. Grateful and gracious
4. Non Compliant
5. Admirer
6. Can judge better through many situations
7. Have full control on sentiments
8. Patient
These are the important signs, if a person behave accordingly as above we may treat him/her a matured enough person regardless a 20 years old or 50 years
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“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
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“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”
― Roy Bennett
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“A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”
― Saul Bellow
Humanity is rather immature - which shows the full development of repeated errors.
A man is matured, when is responsible for his/her life.
A question of morality is another matter.
What is moral in the modern world? The war in Syria? Perhaps the terrorist attacks in North Africa or Paris?
Can science be moral?
Fine dissertation about the issue of moral and maturity.
Maturity as a Guide to Morals
The expressions ‘mature’ and ‘immature’ appear very frequently in our daily talk about morality: Not only do we say that a certain person, judgement, or action is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, we also say that he/she/it is ‘mature’ or ‘immature’. Interestingly, no philosophical research has yet been done to clarify the concept of maturity and its relevance to morality, despite its actuality and importance in everyday moral thought...
Thus an autonomy formed by a universal sympathy means dominating oneself with the aim of living according to morality, and this is what we mean by the expression maturity in everyday language. This allows for a competence in making mature judgements, which are good moral judgements which may lay claim to a certain objectivity, which means that they are trustworthy, that one has good reasons to assume them to be correct, and in acting accordingly. Good moral judgements are judgements which when acted on realise the aims of morality in the everyday sense, i.e., the good of others and the stability and thus permanence of society for the sake of all its members...
https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7057/1/Hedstrand_Nils.pdf
Thanks, immensely for all your enlightening contributions. As always, I have received much more than I could have hoped for. Yes, I had a hunch that there might be an intrinsic connection between what it takes to live the moral life to the best of one's ability and what qualifies someone to be adjudged as mature. Some societal and cultural prescriptions for men's roles and women's roles in some settings encourage some people to be over-tasked while the others have it easy. In other words, some cultures foster immaturity in one party in a family while the other party is forced by both nature and nurture to mature. Some of the responses confirmed it for me; in its simplest form maturity consists in 'having one's centre of gravity outside one's self.' I think of family units and just imagine: If every one thought of every one else, would homes not be paradise on earth?
Dear Colleagues,
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Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
---- Bryan Stevenson
Dear R. N. Uchem,
Maturity - a condition when a person is aware of what is going on around him, understands the main causes behind the events, it is not too glad and very upset the final result. Thus, it is at a position that allows him to absorb the pressure and remain calm about situations that happen around him.
You may realize that you have matured, looking at the following features:
- You listen more and speak less
- You do not avoid responsibility
- You argue less and more succumb
- You enjoy every season of the year
- On your face wearing a smile
- Do you like children and the elderly
- You save more than you spend
- Do you pamper yourself reading
- You take care of yourself as well as about other
- You are looking for signs of maturit
Maturity comes with responsibility. With responsibility comes susceptibility. The susceptibility leads to self-confidence. Move with confidence, to show the world that you have already matured.
Maturity is the ability to respond to the environment in a good manner. This response is generally learned rather than instinctive. Maturity also encompasses knowing when to act, according to the circumstances and the culture of the society.
Maturity is an attribute of the inner mind of an individual. Its manifestations could be in terms of sense of reasoning, sense of responsibility, physical or bodily growth among others.. it is also possible that these attributes could help in maintaining morality and it could also be the reverse.
There was a time when I used to think education brings maturity, then I thought it's age, then I thought it's exposure: the more you deal with people the better you behave based on experience. Maturity may grow with all this but by now I believe it's only the emotional quotient ie high emotional intelligence that makes one seem mature to others. A learned man with superiority complex would be liked by no one. A great traveller who makes fun of other cultures wastes his travels. And age may make you less tolerant too. So eq , an innate quality polished by all three mentioned above, is the standard of maturity for most of us in practical life. When you are careful in your reactions gender difference also is not seen with bias nor any other differences including human weaknesses.
Its relationship to morality is to intend no verbal psychological or physical harm to humans while simultaneously not reacting to their ideosyncracies.
According to Chesterton, "The advantage of advancing years lies in discovering that traditions are true, and therefore alive; indeed, a tradition is not even traditional except when it is alive. It is great fun to find out that the world has not repeated proverbs because they are proverbial, but because they are practical." - G.K. Chesterton, All is Grist, 1952.
Dear Rose Uchem, you will find interesting contributes that may help you with this question, if you go through the several amazing contributes to my previous questions, on the meaning of Aging and maturity:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_use_of_Youth_Are_Health_and_spirit_and_physical_strength_and_vitality_the_fundamental_precursors_of_Ageing_Wisdom?_tpcectx=profile_questions
or
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_use_of_ageing_and_maturity_for_a_scientist
As months go by, it is nearly inevitable to find some very similar questions on RG.
Nevertheless, I find it interesting, that we also get different and much interesting contributes, even from the same participants, when questions are proposed for debate, in a slight different manner. Most complement, and all are valuable. (this is why I chose that quote from Chesterton, to contribute to your interesting question). That is the magic of RG, and this is why we keep coming back for more.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_use_of_Wisdom_Cant_we_live_without_wisdom#580cda75dc332d67a066a301
Kind regards, Maria
Maturity of Human Mind!
... when One stop trying to change others, but instead focus on changing self!...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maturity-human-mind-gope-suresh-h?trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A577811291477238657903%2CVSRPtargetId%3A6103938638792384512%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary&trk=vsrp_influencer_content_res_name
As a rule, we acquire values from our family. We can't change them throughout the time.If a child were brought up in the inner atmosphere, where all was bought and all was sold one would never be an altruist. At the same time, an altruist won't be changed, becoming mature. My Dad told me, that they-doctors- had met each other after 30 years. of separation. Those who were sly in youth are becoming worse, those who were noble and hard-working are becoming more humane and friendly. Humanistic persons can't loose their good qualities- they can only improve them. Perfection in goodness is unlimited. The question is- Will a good person be able to change the evil person, if a fate connects them together?
I think this question can be addressed from different perspectives. From the African philosophical perspective, what could be said to filial based maturity does has moral relevant context; and this can be understood under the footing of communal justice principles. First, the communal justice footext does not place man and woman unequally in terms of maturity. Second, maturity is linked to morality. How? The quadrant of communal justice is as follows: justice-as-coexistence, justice-as-acceptance, justice-as-care and justice-as-concern. The piece that directly links to maturity is justice-as-acceptance. This refers to willingness to execute the role demanded by a particular stage of life. These roles are obligated by virtue of age, status, circumstance, etc. it is the acceptance of societal role that marks one as mature. (The acceptance here refers to willingness to carry out societal duties for their sake). These roles are generally moral, e.g caring for others of lesser life-station. It is the deontologic nature of the duty and its age-or-status relevance that makes maturity as morally relevant category.
Dear Colleagues,
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
---- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think that a man has maturity when he will understand the sense of his action and he will act with responsibility, into a short sentence.
The responsibility can be a moral discussion. The maturity can have different levels, as and the responsibility.
Dear Uchem,
I think that you have already heard about the Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
At the Pre-Conventional stage, a person may be directed by obedience and fear of punishment.
At the Conventional stage the decions made by a person are oriented towards conformity and social order. The person adheres to the rules set by the society to the benefit of social peace, but not because of the fear of punishment in the first place.
At the highest stage, the Post-Conventional stage, a person follows universal ethical principles he considers valid, irrecpective of any societal pressure. This latter stage is frequently referred to as moral maturity.
Paul
Dear Colleagues,
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Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
---- Tracy McMillan
Maturity as a Guide to Morals
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
--- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7057/1/Hedstrand_Nils.pdf
Dear Colleagues,
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
---- Peter De Vries
Dear @Subhash, I have posted the same resource four days ago about maturity and moral. It seems that you have overlooked this contribution (page 3).
Thanks a lot again, everyone who has contributed. Yes, indeed. I knew about Lawrence Kolberg's stages of moral development. Infact it was at the background as I framed my question. I however deliberately kept the question simple so as not to scare away those without the technical knowledge but had good ideas. And I have harvested them all. Thank you.
Dear Colleagues,
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The following saying shows that maturity and morality are linked together:
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."
---- Charles de Montesquieu
Believes specialists in psychology, especially in the field of educational psychology, that general maturity is a state of the arbitrator compatibility refers to the completeness and harmony of labor between mental functions, and physical and physiological, spiritual, and social, are able to understand life and with all its contradictions, as well as independence in the control of its decision-making in a way fateful reasonable and logical and sound in his life apart from the control and influence of others.
I think maturity is linked to morality because morality considered as the map for maturity and it will be basic to make any right decision.
Through my own experience in life morality is an essential element for the success of any part in this life whether in science or family or other life and I think it should start from the family life because it is the basic element and the first to build a society and there is no age limit, but for some cultures I found that they are demanding apply in women than men, and here defect and imbalance becomes difficult to complete any operation by one party only if they are accompanied by sacrifices and this is not fair.
Dear Colleagues,
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
---- Tom Stoppard
Resp. Prof. Uchem,
A mature person acts sensitively.
The link between maturity and morality could be that a moral person is definitely mature but it is difficult to analyze a mature person to act morally!
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If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.
---- Ariel Pink
Ethics is costly and a luxury: Morale and Maturity!
Moral standards are very complex and complicated in a diverse culture. The ethics statement for safety is a concern when you have diversity. People have different beliefs, principles and background history. It is not an easy or cheap process to have an ethical culture and business. People would call this endeavor a luxury since it is so costly, risky and hard to manage. But, it is very important and a key factor to have high standards of safety, security, ethics and morale codes in a work place. So, how do you build these type of statements, practices and benefits without jeopardizing the momentum of profits, bottom line and return of investment?...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics-costly-luxury-morale-maturity-keisha-lanell-merchant?trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A577811291478172354866%2CVSRPtargetId%3A6125155963071713281%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary&trk=vsrp_influencer_content_res_name
Inevitable when we pass through the phases of Maturity and Morality
Example - Lithuanian Military
Moral maturity of an individual in a democratic society is given special attention in the modern concept of military honor. Comprehension of duty and responsibility to one’s own people contributes to the solution of another important socio-political and ethical problem, i.e. public relations. Military officers should always be careful not to artificially accelerate the distance between the military and its civilian environment, but rather try to make clear the position of the armed forces as a political instrument and integral part of the Lithuanian society.
http://www.bundesheer.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/10_cma_08_elp.pdf
Dear Colleagues,
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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
---- Ann Landers
Dear @Uchem, this resource seems to be fine for your research question.
Moral Maturity: Measuring the Development of Sociomoral Reflection
https://books.google.rs/books?id=gSfjAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=moral+maturity+is+positively+correlated+with&source=bl&ots=kaFu5V4PsV&sig=p_OuBW6drGT-NvYmUQdAM6WPIYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPkfjvw5HQAhWGWhQKHa3PCL0Q6AEINzAI#v=onepage&q=moral%20maturity%20is%20positively%20correlated%20with&f=false
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
---- Laura Marling
Age is really not relative... It's a simple count from when someone was born. How we view people of certain ages is perhaps relative.and related to how we frame specific age ranges.
Maturity is biological. It deals with change from simple to complex. Morality is socio- culturally determined. It is relative and environmentally conditioned.
Dear Colleagues,
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
---- M. Esther Harding
Maturity and morality are signs of responsiveness. However, the more the level of maturity the less moral one becomes. whether we like it or not the more conscious we are about our self and others as well as our environment, the more we take or show judgmental actions which could be love or hate.
27 Signs of True Maturity — How Many Can You Identify With?
A mature person doesn’t assume they have all the answers and is willing to learn from others. They know there is always room to grow and improve and they find value in reaching out for help...
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2040379-27-signs-of-true-maturity-how-many-can-you-identify-with/
Dear @Hazim, our colleague @Subhash has made same contribution on Oct 21, 2016. See above the most popular answer.
In simple human maturity is treating/respecting all people same way. It is broad mindedness may not all people having. Or you can say the following way also. The art of making a point without an enemy is human maturity whether men or women. Certainly it is linked to morality.
I think maturity does not depends on human age, I am talking about metal maturity, where it is so easy to find many international scientist has become fully mature at about 25 years old, so maturity can be considered as a mixture of many disolved factors with different percentage ratios, including age, metal abilities, living environment, existence of parents, financial issue, education level, genetic parameter, ..etc.
Regards, Emad
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I am so sorry about that I did not see it. Therefore I deleted my response.
Dear Colleagues,
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
---- William Arthur Ward
Dear friends, accept my renewed gratitude for your responses. My appreciation also goes to newer contributors.
There’s been a lot of attention devoted to how technology is scattering our attention and corroding our relationships, but less to how it’s impairing our capacity for solitude. We’re so overstimulated that being alone has become unbearable — a fact that was highlighted in a series of studies from 2014, where people preferred giving themselves electric shocks rather than sitting still alone in a room for 6 to 15 minutes. In the lab, we shock ourselves; in real life, we reach for our phones.
But to live a good life — and to become mature individuals — we need to be content with being alone with our own thoughts. That’s because the only way we can come to understand who we are and think through the critical decisions about our lives is through the self-examination that occurs in solitude...
http://www.greensboro.com/triad_careers/more_triad_careers/technology-is-impairing-our-ability-to-be-alone-research-shows/article_066ae3b3-3a0c-5cb1-ab47-f37af4107114.html
Maturity and morality questions are both philosophical concepts and metaphysical ontology to be precised. So, they have no final answers. It all depends on ability to defend your school of thought that made it considerable. However, to me maturity is the ability to handle life stresses without change of character and behavior. Dough, change is the only constant phenomenon in this cosmos(Heraclitus). In this relation, human behavior is dynamic but better character(good moral) in the philosophical branch of axiology could be acquired with time and it can also be a product of experiences gathered in the epistemological sources of knowledge such as empiricism, authoritarianism, intuition-ism, Revelation-ism, etc.
If one under maturity the age understands, absolutely no. If one understands under maturity wisdom, that may have been obtained. If you conveyed values and appropriated, then yes.
But formally, morality and maturity have nothing to do with each other.
Michael L.
Thanks to you all again for your wise contributions. I will like to add to the pool of responses so far. On the list of signs of human maturity could be: ability to delay gratification, willingness to accept deprivation and suffering for the sake of achieving goals that could guarantee a greater future; ability to serve and contribute to positive societal and other interests larger than one's own personal goals.
On the day when weapons are silenced, famine and endemic diseases dammed will be the blessed day of human maturity
In addition to many valid contributions, A mature persons values his/her words and take responsibilities for their consequences. They will rather be silent than speak words they cannot own up to.
They value their words!
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
---- M. Esther Harding
I'm for the greatest women. They are symbols of eternal energy, beauty, love and the meaning of life. Other is rubbish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLi-KJJTSyc
In my opinion, there is absolutely no link between maturity and morality, except that an adult can inflict deeper wounds, and a person who has a strict moral code of conduct better tolerates the blows of fate
Maturity is a state when an individual is in a position to realize what is happening around him/her, to understand the rationale behind those happenings and does not get too elated nor too depressed by final results. Thus he/she is in a position to absorb pressures and remain unperturbed by the situations around him/her. You can realize you have now matured by looking for following signs:
1. You listen more and talk less
2. You do not shy away from responsibilities
...
9. You take care of yourself as well as others
10. You seek the signs of maturity...
Maturity brings with it responsibility. With responsibility comes sensibility. Sensibility leads to confidence. So move with confidence to show the world you have now matured.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/signs-that-you-have-matured.html
Forgiveness, honesty, and responsibility for the people around and for yourself. Surely, it's connected with your own moral code, which is to be and remain a human being.
mature (v.)
late 14c., "encourage suppuration;" mid-15c. "bring to maturity," from Latin maturare "to ripen, bring to maturity," from maturus "ripe, timely, early," related to manus "good" and mane "early, of the morning," from PIE root *ma- (1) "good," with derivatives meaning "occurring at a good moment, timely, seasonable, early." Meaning "come or bring to maturity" is from 1620s. The financial sense of "reach the time for payment" is from 1861. Related: Matured; maturing.
http://www.etymonline.com/word/mature
There is no certain age, probably see young people have the wisdom of grey hair. The signs of maturity is quiet response and let people talk, good listener and think in the future consequences.
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Aly R Abdel_moemin
Dear Colleagues, Good Day,
"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
----- Joshua L. Liebman
What are the indexes to measure maturity in any area of life? Could they be age, exposure, knowledge, experience, connection,eloquence.......?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_indexes_to_measure_maturity_in_any_area_of_life_Could_they_be_age_exposure_knowledge_experience_connection_eloquence?
Dear Colleagues, Good Day,
"Signs of Maturity in Young Men
As little boys develop into young men, they will show signs of physical and emotional maturity. Physical signs of maturity are completely up to nature, but signs of emotional maturity can be more difficult to recognize. Watch for signs of maturity before awarding your son with more privileges and responsibilities such as keys to the car, later curfews or getting a job.
Physical Maturity
Some males can show signs of maturing physically as early as early as 9 years old, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. This is when their testes, penis and scrotum grow. The genitals typically reach full adult size when a young man reaches his late teens. The voice deepens when the penis begins growing. Hair, such as pubic, chest and facial, often begin growing when a boy is 12 years old. Nocturnal emissions -- also referred to as wet dreams -- start between the ages of 13 and 17.
Patience and Values
Emotional changes are also a sign of maturity. A sign of maturity is making a long-term commitment and sticking to it, according to Tim Elmore, the founder and president of Growing Leaders. Young men who delay gratification show that they are sticking to their beliefs and doing what is right rather than doing what's convenient. As young men mature, they will question old values and develop values of their own. Respect for other people and developing an unselfish attitude are also signs that a young man is maturing emotionally.
Controlling Anger
When confronted with a negative circumstance, a mature young man controls his anger rather than acting out with harsh actions or words. A sign of maturity is practicing healthy methods to control anger, such as walking away, meditation or taking deep breaths. If a problem needs to be resolved, a young man needs to identify the real source of anger. When emotions are under control, a mature young man can address the issue in a calm and collected manner.
Accepting Compliments and Criticism
As young men age, they will develop their own sense of identity and independence. They will test new ideas and form a unique identity. A sign of maturity is not reacting strongly to compliments or criticism. Compliments are accepted with gratitude, but a mature young man will not let the praise get to his head. When criticism is received, a young man showing signs of maturity will not get bitter but instead take the criticism in stride."
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https://www.livestrong.com/article/1003762-signs-maturity-young-men/
Mindset, not the age, is more a good factor to explain the maturity of a person with respect to responses to problems, issues, emergencies, responsibilities, challenges and opportunities. Someone may be numerically aged, with a kindergarten mentality!
Maturity is strongly linked to mindset. A mindset well positioned on and for honesty, integrity, peace, sensible sacrifice, contentment and wisdom speaks and lives maturely.
Moral Maturity is marked by depth and consistency of moral judgement; by recognition that any moral judgement may be fallible; that moral judgement is complex, in that moral principles, if they are to be applied to a specific case, may need to be interpreted. Moral maturity is a requirement in the person who is to apply a body of knowledge or a skill to the solution of a problem, or to the understanding of a situation, if the knowledge is not to remain abstract and the skill potential unrealized...
https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2014-2015/geninfo/geninfo-lo-mmat.shtml
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