Emotional Maturity in Widows and Widowers

Maturity is the ability to respond to the environment in an appropriate manner. This response is generally learned than instinctive. Maturity also encompasses being aware of the correct time and place to behave and knowing when to act, according to the circumstances and the culture of the society one lives in. Emotional maturity refers to the ability to understand and manage your emotions. Emotional maturity enables us to create the life we desire. Emotional maturity is observed through thoughts and behaviors. Each person has different levels of emotional maturity. It is something that they can consistently work on and improve over time.The expression 'Maturity' refers to a significant phase in the growth of a living organism. Maturity is achieved when individual growth is completed and the organism is ripe for propagation. The concept of maturity is used also in psychology and psychiatry. In this field it designates that phase of personality development which corresponds to biological and psychological maturation. If the development of a person is undisturbed, biological and psychological maturation progress more or less parallel with each other. Usually, biological maturation proceeds ahead of emotional maturation.Each phase of biological development is characterized by certain well-defined psychological attitudes. Biologically, the newborn infant is completely dependent upon the mother and accordingly their emotional attitude is characterized by dependence. They seek gratification for their needs from the mother; their security is based on being cared for and loved by the mother. Gradually, the first signs of dependence appear. The child learns to use their biological equipment, they learn to focus with their eyes, to masticate food, to coordinate the interventions of their skeletal muscles, they learn to grab objects and to walk. They learn to exercise conscious control over their excremental functions at first are mastered separately. The eyes learn how to focus, the hands how to grab, the legs how to walk; but finally all these functions become coordinated with each other and the child is able to spot objects in environment, approach them and take hold of them. The greatest step towards independence is accomplished by the development of the functions of intelligence which allow a high degree of independent orientation in the surrounding world. The most important phase of development begins with the maturation of the sex glands during puberty. The growing organism has acquired all functions, to which finally the faculty of propagation is added. There follows a period called adolescence which in many respects is in sharp contrast with maturity although it introduces maturity. We refer to adolescent boastfulness, insecurity, awkwardness, instability, etc. Although biologically the adolescent organism reaches the end of its growth and is in possession of all its potential faculties, psychologically it can be sharply differentiated from maturity. In this age the parallelism between biological and psychological development does not prevail. Biological growth by now is a full phase ahead of psychological maturation. The concept of maturity has not received a great deal of explicit attention in the literature. Delineation of libidinal development has been yielded the important formulation of the "Genital level" and "Object interest (Freud, 1924)". Recent emphasis on the conflict between the regressive, dependents, versus the progressive, productive forces in the personality has directed interest toward the more detailed nature of maturity.Emotionally mature person characterized as capable of responding in gradation or degree of emotional responses. They do not respond in all or none fashion, but keeps within bounds. They are able to delay their responses as controlled with the impulsiveness of young child (Hollingworth, 1928).Earlier researcher found in anormative survey method was found appropriate for this study. …