DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...

STUDY 3 - Bespoke Second Interview Schedules
• Frank
• Rob
• Mark
• Victoria
• Lilly
• Claire
Pre-Crisis
Frank Interview 2 Schedule
• When you were talking about how you felt working in Wall Street, you described the
work as ‘dry and mechanical’, and you also mention that there was a ‘predictability’
about it, being on a ‘repetitive treadmill’. What I am curious about is what was about
the sense of predictability that turned you off.
Persona and Pressure
• During the last interview, you said “I think I felt a huge sense of urgency to what I
wanted to be.” So what I was wondering is if it wasn’t your own wants and desires
driving your behaviour, what was it?
• Was there any parental pressure to get married at the time?
• So do you think in retrospect – do you think that she as a person was suited to you?
• You used the phrase of her having “a lot of ice” around her.
• Then when you said you were at the law firm, you said “I felt like I could fake it very
well’, and that it ‘felt very false’. Can you explain by what you meant of feeling false?
• Back to the marriage, you described it as very role-orientated. Can you explain what
you meant by that?
Gender and Emotion
• you talk about this discovering emotional openness, when after the marriage you
were partying hard and there was ecstasy involved and there was that opening up
period. What do you think had prevented you from discovering this emotional
openness before?
• One can say that everybody has masculine and feminine qualities to differing
degrees. Certainly emotional openness is often considered a more feminine trait
while emotional stoicism is considered a more masculine trait. At the time when you
were opening up to emotionality, did it feel like you were getting in touch with the
feminine side of yourself?
• Did it manifest any other way, did you undertake any other activities that weren’t so
traditionally male?
• You mentioned searching and experimentation. What was the search undertaken to
find?
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