DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
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Peer pressure<br />
Need for social acceptance<br />
Fear of personal desires and aspirations<br />
• What were you hiding behind this façade?<br />
• What happened to this façade/persona/false self during the time when you separated from your<br />
old life?<br />
o Was it still up? Did it come down in pieces or at once?<br />
• What happened to this self during the time when you were exploring through new ideas and<br />
potential new life steps?<br />
• What is being “authentic” all about?<br />
• What does living “authentically” mean to you?<br />
• Do you think its just a subjective thing, or where does it come from?<br />
• When did you first notice that you were living authentically, or that you were being true to<br />
yourself?<br />
Value Shift – Beyond Materialism<br />
• How would you describe your aims in life before the crisis?<br />
• Were you motivated by<br />
o Money?<br />
o Status?<br />
o Position?<br />
o Power?<br />
• If so…What did you hope those things would bring?<br />
• Where / who do you think you had got those values from?<br />
o Probe for: culture, parents, peers, business world, social pressures etc.<br />
• Would you consider yourself at the time to be a materialistic person?<br />
• Are you still as driven by money as you were then?<br />
• Has there been a change in this value set?<br />
• What are you aiming for now?<br />
• What is important to you now?<br />
o Probe for:<br />
Relationships and family<br />
Positive contribution<br />
Spiritual aspect of life<br />
Metacognition / Self-Reflection<br />
• Did you feel that you had lost perspective in your life before the crisis?<br />
o In what sense?<br />
o Lost perspective on what?<br />
• Did you feel that you were living consciously?<br />
• Did you ever feel that you were on “autopilot”?<br />
• Did you ever feel that life had become an automatic routine?<br />
• Did you know yourself and who you were as a person clearly?<br />
• Were you aware of the impact your life was having on those around you?<br />
• Did you even think about leaving your life? When did that start?<br />
• When did you start to be able to stand back on your situation and get some perspective on it?<br />
• How did that new perspective come about?<br />
• How would you compare your mindset now with before the crisis?<br />
o What do you have perspective on now?<br />
Gender Identity: Animus and Anima<br />
• Before crisis, would you have described yourself as “in touch” with your masculine / feminine<br />
side?<br />
• Were you aware of it?<br />
• How would you describe your masculine side?<br />
• How would you describe your feminine side?<br />
• Why do you think it had remained latent/hidden before the crisis?<br />
• How did you feel / think when it started to become more apparent?<br />
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