| Summary: | 博士 === 國立交通大學 === 教育研究所 === 104 === According to Bauer and McAdams (2004a), psychological maturity can be defined as two forms of personality development: social-cognitive maturity (SCM) and social-emotional well-being (SEWB). The aim of this study attempts to explore the characteristics of psychological maturity in the population of Taiwanese adults, and its’ relations with growth themes, growth goals, meaningfulness of growth themes and growth goals, and stress related growth. One hundred and two participants were recruited through snowball sampling. The participants’ ages ranged from 18-57 years old. The participants completed the scales of Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), Psychological Well-being (PWB), stress related growth Inventory, and Big- Five Inventory (BFI), and they were asked to write down their life stories (Growth Themes and growth goals). Ego development was measured by WUSCT which serves as the indicator of SCM. The results showed the average stage of ego development for participants was between Self-Aware stage and conscientious stage. It also showed older participants displayed a higher level of ego development. Social-emotional well-being was measured by PWB and the results showed that he majority of people agreed with that life brings positive emotion in everyday; PWB and SCM were not significantly correlated. Moreover, the results showed that in regard to peak experience in life stories, making meanings to achievement themes was positively correlated with SCM. On the contrary, when describing nadir experience, experiencing academic setback and poor job performance was negatively correlated with SWB. Stress related growth in the peak experience was positively correlated with PWB. Moreover, the meaningfulness of growth themes would moderate the relationship between growth themes and ego development for participants when describing achievement themes in peak experience. In addition, exploratory growth goals setted up by parents was positively correlated with SCM and personal intrinsic growth goals was positively correlated with PWB. Future studies should help people to develop multiple ways to inspire their self-value and to construct meaningful life, but not limited to the achievements of academic and work.
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