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The concept of emotional age is meant to describe a person's emotional maturity. A person is compared to average people of different chronological ages.
For example, if a 12-year-old shows similar emotional maturity to a typical 8-year-old, they might be said to have an emotional age of 8.
Use[]
The concept of emotional age is sometimes used to describe people with developmental disabilities such as autism.
In pop culture, quizzes purport to test a person's emotional age.[1][2][3]
Comparison to mental age[]
The concept is similar to the idea of mental age, which is meant to measure intelligence. The concept of mental age has been criticized for being vague, paternalistic, and stigmatizing towards people with disabilities.[4][5][6][7]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ O, Bri. What's Your Emotional Age?, HowStuffWorks
- ↑ Morissette, Crystal. Quiz: What's Your Emotional Age?, Oprah.com
- ↑ McKay, Brett and McKay, Kate. What’s Your Emotional Age? A Quiz From 1936, Art of Manliness
- ↑ Thurstone LL. The Mental Age Concept. Psychological Review 33 (1926): 268-278.
- ↑ Rogers, Elaine and McGuire, Brian. Mental age and intellectual disability: Psychologists' perspectives on the use of the term ‘mental age’ as it relates to adults with an intellectual disability.
- ↑ What’s My Age Again: Why Mental Age Theory Hurts People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Disability Wisdom
- ↑ Smith, Ivanova. Mental Age Theory Hurts, Spectrum Life
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