| Inductively derived Categories (Categories 1)/Author | Deductively derived Categories (Categories 2) |
| § Judgment § Ability to think without relying on the empirical § Maturity of insight § Reflective agent § Capacity of cognitive control | Cognitive Abilities |
| § Moral growth § Reflective and moral agent | Moral abilities |
| § Willingness to live spiritually § Ability to author and govern one’s self § Coherence of reasons/purposes § Ability to control affect § Ability to decide who one is as a person § Self-responsibility § Autonomy as a motive for learning and development § Overcoming a hurting family past | Self-management competence |
| Experience | Experience |
| Fluidity, pluralization of adult recognition | Recognition: flexibility |
| § Sexual maturity § Completed biotic growth: fusion of the epiphysis with the metaphysis of the long bones § Maturation of prefrontal/posterior brain regions | Completed maturation |
| Coming of age: endowment of the person with legally established duties and rights | Legal age |