COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN ADULTHOOD AND AGING

最近人们对适应性和渐进性的兴趣激增， 成人和以后的生活认知发展方面，但没有研究 到目前为止，目的是审查所产生的各种组成部分， 在一个单一的研究项目的概念和经验框架。 也不 有没有试图解开 年龄/成熟度和时间/队列变化效应的贡献。 本研究 目的是测试，在一个综合的，序贯设计，假设， 认知情感成熟度有两个不同的组成部分。 的 第一个主要涉及反思性思维和认知 第二个主要与社会成熟度有关， 防守的灵活性。 这两个组件也被假设为 不同环境前因的功能，第一个是介导的 首先是环境的复杂性，其次是家庭关系 促进安全。 描绘和定义这些不同的组成部分 认知情感的成熟和他们成年后的历程将有助于 完善我们的理论和经验的理解的性质， 健康的，适应性的晚年发展。 拟议的5年研究项目采用了纵向组合， 和横截面序列。 在时间1，432名成年人的样本， 按年龄、性别和年龄/队列组分层。 这些 将在时间2对个体进行复检。 此外，新独立 将在时间点2获得216名成人的分层样本。 本研究采用验证性因素分析法。 分开的 分析，研究探讨了关系的结构模型， 认知-情感成熟度的假设维度之间， 认知和社会成熟度。 首先，这些之间的关系 以及更传统的智力功能 （结晶和流体智力）将被检查;第二个模型 关于不同的环境决定因素（组织/控制和 关系）的两个认知情感层面将得到发展; 第三，这些环境影响的结构因果模型 成人认知-情感成熟的前体将被测试。 还将进行描述性MANOVAS，试图解开 与年龄/成熟度相关的影响与时间/队列变化相关的影响， 测试/仪器和实验死亡率。

There has been a surge of recent interest in adaptive and progressive aspects of adult and later life cognitive development, but no research has been aimed, as yet at examining various components of the resulting conceptual and empirical framework within a single research project. Nor has there been any effort at attempting to disentangle the relative contributions of age/maturation and time/cohort change effects. This study aims to test, within an integrated, sequential design, the hypothesis that there are two distinct components of cognitive-emotional maturity. The first is primarily concerned with reflective thinking and cognitive complexity, while the second is primarily related to social maturity and flexibility of defense. These two components are also hypothesized to be a function of different environmental antecedents, the first being mediated primarily by environmental complexity, the second by family relationships promoting security. Delineating and defining these different components of cognitive-emotional maturity and their course through adulthood will help refine our theoretical and empirical understanding of the nature of healthy, adaptive late life development. The proposed 5-year research project employs a combination of longitudinal and cross-sectional sequences. At time 1, a sample of 432 adults, stratified by age, sex, and age/cohort group, will be obtained. These individuals will be retested at Time 2. In addition, a new independent stratified sample of 216 adults will be obtained at Time 2. The research employs a confirmatory factor analytic method. In separate analyses, the research examines a structural model of the relationship between hypothesized dimensions of cognitive-emotional maturity, reflective cognition and social maturity. First, the relationship between these dimensions and more traditional dimensions of intellectual functioning (crystallized and fluid intelligence) will be examined; second a model about different environmental determinants (organizational/control and relationship) of the two cognitive-emotional dimensions will be developed; and third, a structural causal model of the effect of these environmental precursors on adult cognitive-emotional maturity will be tested. Descriptive MANOVAS also will be performed in an attempt to disentangle the effects related to age/maturation vs. those due to time/cohort change, testing/instrumentation, and experimental mortality.