goal: affective maturity: definition

major indicator: "healthy, balanced SELF-GIVING that includes the ability to receive from God and from others ..."

related indicator: "ability to address the most emotional stresses; i.e., anxiety, weak confidence, anger, loneliness and sadness."

- richard fitzgibbons, md (catholic psychiatirst, author of "homosexuality and hope" published by the catholic medical association) as interviewed in zenit.org (2005 dec 5). # ZE05120523

personal comment:
the major indicator is positively worded; the related indicator, negatively.