Psychology Today | 14.11.2026 22:04
Our culture likes easy measurements of maturity, such as chronological age, number of achievements, financial stability, and the ability to adapt to conventional norms for having a job and a place to live. However, a person can meet these criteria for growing up and still have little or no psychological maturity. The word maturity comes from the Latin word matures, meaning “ripen.” We can understand ripen as meaning “moving beyond early stages of development.” But before we can ripen, we may need to grow down.
