DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...

o How would you describe your new job?
o What does this one have that the previous job did not?
• New relationship?
• New activities?
• In what ways is your life different now to what it might have been if you had not gone
through the episode?
• How do you think you are different now to how you were before?
o Probe for: authenticity, perspective, values (materialism)
o What do you think the point of life is?
Sense of personhood
15. Did the experience change you as a person in any way? How?
a. Was this change enduring or temporary?
b. Did you take up anything new? Give up anything?
c. Metamorphosis? Looking back, were you before the episode and you
after different in any way?
d. (if not mentioned spontaneously) Do you see yourself as “a new person”
since the crisis?
i. What do you mean by that?
e. Describe you before the crisis
f. And you after…
g. Did your goals change at all? What do you want out of life?
h. What roles are most important to you now?
Self-understanding
16. In retrospect, did you learn anything about yourself from the episode?
a. Do you think you know yourself any better now?
c. What parts of you were you not free to express?
b. What do you know about yourself that you did not know before?
c. How did the way you perceive yourself change from during the episode to
now?
e. Do you think that the ideal life is a life without crisis?
f. In sum, what part do you think this crisis played in your development as a
person?
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