Erik Erikson's concept of psychosocial maturity assessed by scores on the Inventory of Psychosocial Development, was related to performance indices in a self-paced course. A significant inverse relationship was found between psychosocial maturity and the number of pauses as well as the number of weeks of no examination providing some evidence for the construct validity of the Inventory of Psychosocial Development.
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