In a generic way, Immaturity is the quality of an Immature person. Ok, but that does not say much; let's see then the Etymology of the word Immaturity, which comes from Latin: prefix "im" to indicate a negation "no", word "maturus" which means "good or mature" and the suffix "ty", which indicates "quality" (quality of not good or not mature).

Are we approaching a better definition when determining that Immaturity is the lack of Maturity?

Not necessarily, but based on Philosophy, the concept improves if we add to the above that Immaturity is linked to the folly, malpractice, imprudence, irresponsibility, bad judgment and instability of the human being; In the same way, the word serves as an adjective to refer to a person who thinks, speaks or acts as if he or she was younger than he or she actually is.

Characteristics of a Person "Possessed" by Immaturity

.- He or She shows a great delay in their mental, spiritual, personal, affective, physical, family, social, academic, economic or professional development; with a lag between chronological age and mental age.

.- He or She is unable to know himself or herself well, and is often dissociated, with great ignorance of reality, him o her environment and himself o herself, to the extreme of not knowing what their virtues and defects are.

.- He or She is highly unstable emotionally, personally, intellectually and socially; with constant changes of humor. moods, likes and even personality.

.- He or She shows little or no responsibility, organization, loyalty, honesty, coherence, perseverance, persistence and commitment.

.- He or She demands a lot from others, but refuses to contribute, therefore dictates many orders but is not proactive; showing little ability to cope with setbacks and adversities and to solve problems.

.- He or She Usually has existential problems or vacuums, with absence of life project and improvisation in the study, love, work, culture, friendship and family.

.- He or She is quite manipulable and fanatizes with extreme ease; also, he or she presents difficulties to be able to argue or reason.

.- When He or She makes mistakes, disguises them quickly blaming others or justifying anything to not recognize them.

.- He or She has little or no motivation, willingness and bad attitude to think, speak or do.

.- Normally He or She is ambiguous with multiple and incongruent values, with unstable moral and ethical criteria.

.- He or She easily loaded with hatreds, resentments, fears and resentments.

Causes and Consequences of Immaturity

To determine this, it is necessary to segment the Immaturity to discern with five types: mental immaturity, affective-emotional immaturity, social immaturity, intellectual immaturity and professional immaturity.

In this sense, it is denoted as causes of Immaturity the delay in the growth, development or progress in the mental and neuronal structure of the person, to receive the real information coming from their senses, as well as to think and properly process said signals, so that they are coherent with the feelings, the social rules, the experience, the acquired knowledge and the profession.

Therefore, Immaturity derives as a consequence that He or She is not able to face the difficulties or the common facts of life, according to him o her age or according to the requirements of the circumstances; Likewise, he or she dissociates and isolates himself or herself frequently, seeks to obtain everything as easily as possible and clings to revenge as him or her life horizon.

An Example: Compete with Immaturity

Performing a healthy competition with an Immature person is a truly traumatic problem, because an Immature person always wants to win however he or she is, he or she is a cheat by nature, likes to humiliate the vanquished, is a bad loser, is justified, accuses, blames others and he or she is frustrated full of anger and resentment when he or she loses, provoking violent acts; On the contrary, the mature person always keeps the honor and ethics in the competition, and when losing in gallant lid he or she knows how to recognize his or her defeat, for which he or she seeks to correct, learn and improve for the future; and in victory he or she is humble, respecting and honoring the vanquished.

How does Immaturity Affect Health?

In various ways, first of all, the Immaturity affects the health of the "Possessed" as already that in himself or herself represents a delay in the development of the person who suffers it and signifying a health problem; In the same way, the immature person tends to somatize and to be affected by their characteristics, for which:

.- Is socially and mentally "outdated", with the consequent psychological problems in the person.

.- May be permanently dissociated and mentally alienated, reaching the limits of madness.

.- Emotional, personal, intellectual and social instability, can cause he or she to harm himself or herself and fall into vices of alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

.- Irresponsibility, disorganization and incoherence, prevents he or she from recognizing risks and dangers, for which he or she can be a victim of accidents and diseases (for example, sexually transmitted diseases).

.- Their existential vacuums, absence of life project, coupled with the search for easy solutions can lead their to take the absurd decision of suicide.

.- His or her ambiguous nature, fanatized, unmotivated, manipulable, full of errors, guilt, justification, hatred, frustration, resentment and fear, lead inevitably to stress, anxiety, depression and bipolarity, among others.

Conclusions

To Mature every day is the attitude that corresponds to us as human beings, to be always in line with the chronological age that we have and with the situations that we must face on a daily basis.