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Published in Emma Stanton, Claire Lemer, MBA for Medics, 2021
Emotional intelligence increases with age, in line with maturity. Contrary to popular belief, enhancing emotional intelligence cannot occur by attending a one-day seminar or through self-help books. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a fast-track emotional intelligence booster. The most effective approach to developing emotional intelligence requires motivation, extended practise and feedback. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm’. The evidence suggests an individualised approach to training is recommended to break old habits and establish new ones, in keeping with Gladwell’s 10 000-hour rule mentioned previously.
Adherence to Treatment in Children
Published in Lynn B. Myers, Kenny Midence, Adherence to Treatment in Medical Conditions, 2020
Knowledge of illness and reasons for treatment have been found to correlate positively with adherence to daily physiotherapy in children with cystic fibrosis (Gudas et al., 1991) and asthma management (Rubin, Bauman and Lauby, 1989). It has been suggested that level of cognitive maturity is the important factor and this should not be equated with age. Gudas et al. (1991) report that formal operational thinkers are more likely to adhere with treatment than preoperational or concrete operational thinkers. A teaching programme aimed at helping children with diabetes conceptualise their illness in a more formal operational manner was reported to improve adherence (Ingersoll, Orr and Herrold, 1986). There is not a simple relationship between knowledge of disease and adherence. Adherence certainly does not improve with ever increasing understanding of the illness. Instead, it appears that there is an optimum level of knowledge which helps adherence but beyond this further information does not have any effect (Rubin et al., 1989).
Physiological System Modeling
Published in Sujoy K. Guba, Bioengineering in Reproductive Medicine, 2020
Although one single spermatozoa penetrates the ovum there is convincing evidence that a certain population of spermatozoa must be impregnated into the vagina to effect conception. It is therefore appropriate to formulate the fertilizing ability of spermatozoa aggregates that is the spermatozoa delivered in an ejaculate. An index quantifying the fertilizing ability is required. The index must take into account the fact that the presence of a large number of spermatozoa in the ejaculate increases the probability of fertilization and that the maturity of the spermatozoa is also associated with the fertilization process.27 Maturity is age dependent. Age below a certain optimum value leads to immature spermatozoa and therefore an incapability to fertilize. “Old” spermatozoa also have lowered fertilizing ability.28 These opposing trends can be covered by a fertility index of the form
The Potential and Effects of Equine-Assisted Activities in a Day Care Center for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disorders
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2023
I investigated the effects of equine-assisted activities on children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, and which disabilities were more positively affected, especially in terms of self-esteem and social interaction. In this study, equine-assisted activities (not including horseback riding) were conducted once a week for 10 months as one of the occupational therapies offered at a Japanese daycare center (Peters et al., 2021). Social maturity and self-esteem were assessed every two months during the intervention. Social maturity included self-help: ability to perform activities of daily living; locomotion: ability to move to where one wants to go; occupation: occupational performance, such as how to use tools; communication: skills in communicating with words and letters; socialization: participation in social life; and self-direction: ability to control selfishness and take responsibility for one's actions.
The maturity status but not the relative age influences elite young football players’ physical performance
Published in Science and Medicine in Football, 2022
Iván Peña-González, Alejandro Javaloyes, Eduardo Cervelló, Manuel Moya-Ramón
Maturation is the process through which the individuals progress to their adult state, in which structural and functional changes take place in the bodies of young individuals (Radnor et al. 2018). It is important to take maturation into account when comparing young players within a team or an age-group because it has been observed that, although their chronological age is similar, there is high inter-individual variability in their maturity status (Lloyd et al. 2014). The maturity status refers to the moment of the progress of maturation in a specific time point; it is the biological maturation state of an individual at the time of observation (Malina et al. 2004). The inter-individual differences between players from the same age-group in their maturity status may produce differences between them in their anthropometric and physical performance, creating a temporal advantage for players with an advanced maturity status (Moran et al. 2017; Asadi et al. 2018). These temporal physical advantages may suppose a bias in players’ talent identification and selection process because coaches and/or managers of football academies may interpret them as talent.
Appreciating the Role of the Unconscious in Situations of Patient Ambivalence
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2022
Michael James Redinger, Razvan Popescu
Let us reconsider a clinical example used in the target article by highlighting the possible role of defense mechanisms in a situation of true patient ambivalence. For background, defense mechanisms are mental tools that protect against unpleasant emotions (Gabbard 2014). They have been traditionally categorized by their perceived level of maturity based on their contribution to psychosocial dysfunction. The classical categorization divides defenses along a spectrum into mature, neurotic, and immature defenses and these defenses are deployed by patients during times of psychological stress, often unconsciously. More mature defenses allow the patient to emotionally process and adapt to stressors without distortion of the situation or internal or external conflict. Less mature defenses are those that share a characteristic inability to acknowledge distress and, as a result of subsequent distortion of self-image or reality, contribute to less effective behavior in response. These defenses are often deployed reflexively and are influenced by unconscious desires, beliefs, and conflicts. Regardless of how psychologically healthy or mature an individual may be, there are times and circumstances during which immature defense mechanisms may be deployed. The appearance of ambivalence will likely be more present when one engages neurotic and/or immature defenses as ambivalence has been psychoanalytically understood as the result of conflict between the conscious will and repressed unconscious desires.