COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN ADULTHOOD AND AGING

最近，对适应性和进步性的兴趣激增 成人和晚年生活认知发展的各个方面，但没有研究 到目前为止，目的是检查由此产生的 单一研究项目中的概念和经验框架。非 有没有试图解开这位亲戚的纠葛 年龄/成熟度和时间/队列变化效应的贡献。本研究 目的是在集成的顺序设计中测试以下假设 认知-情感成熟有两个截然不同的组成部分。这个 第一，主要涉及反思性思维和认知 复杂性，而第二个主要与社会成熟度和 防守的灵活性。这两个组件也被假定为 不同环境因素的作用，第一个因素起中介作用 主要是受环境复杂性的影响，其次是家庭关系 促进安全。描述和定义这些不同的组件 认知-情绪成熟和他们成年的过程将会有所帮助 完善我们对金融危机本质的理论和经验理解 健康、适应性的晚年发展。 拟议的5年研究项目采用了纵向和纵向相结合的方式 和横截面层序。在时间1,432名成年人的样本， 将获得按年龄、性别和年龄/队列组分层的数据。这些 个人将在时间2重新测试。此外，一个新的独立 在时间2将获得216名成年人的分层样本。 本研究采用验证性因素分析方法。在单独的 分析，这项研究检验了一种关系的结构模型 在认知-情绪成熟度的假设维度之间，反思 认知和社会成熟度。首先，这两者之间的关系 智力功能的维度和更传统的维度 (结晶和流动智能)将被检查；第二个是模型 关于不同的环境决定因素(组织/控制和 两个认知-情绪维度的关系)将得到发展； 第三，这些环境影响的结构因果模型 将测试成人认知-情感成熟度的先兆。 还将执行描述性MANOVAS，试图理清 与年龄/成熟有关的影响与时间/队列变化引起的影响相比， 测试/器械和实验死亡率。

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.