27 years: new age of maturation of young people
Adolescents experience numerous changes, including mental or psychological changes. It is said that the age of psychological maturity is adolescence, but reallyIt depends on multiple factors: to the brain development of each person are added social and environmental factors, experiences or experiences. Parents should give their responsibilities and space to adolescents, and see if there really is a change in psychological maturity or not.
The scales of maturity in adolescents and young people
A study carried out by the Center for Research in the Evaluation and Measurement of Behavior (Cramc) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) and carried out on a group of adolescents has shown that Until the age of 27 there is no significant change in psychological maturity. The study consisted in carrying out a test to young people between 15 and 18 years old, based on 26 concise and direct questions, which were sent to more than 1,000 adolescents to establish the parameters on which to evaluate.
The work began when professionals such as judges and doctors asked for tools to establish if a teenager was mature enough to decide if he wanted to have an abortion or undergo cosmetic surgery without his parents' permission.
The test was tested in a first phase among more than 600 teenagers, and showed that the psychological maturity of adolescents is divided into three subscales:
1. Work Orientation, refers to the level of responsibility, discipline, order and sense of duty that the adolescent has.
2. Autonomy, the predisposition to take the initiative without letting others influence excessively.
3. Identity, evaluates the knowledge that the adolescent has about himself.
Once the test is finished, designed for adolescents between 15 and 18 years old, its authors distributed it among 300 university students between 18 and 30 years old. And the results were not so different because a small change was detected between 22 and 23 years, but the great jump is not recorded until 27 years.
Isabel Martínez
