DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
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• 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<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 and look at your situation and get some<br />
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 /<br />
feminine 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 and think when it started to become more apparent?<br />
o Did it worry you at all?<br />
• What was your first reaction?<br />
• How did the new masculinity / femininity express itself?<br />
o Did it make you act / think differently?<br />
o Friends / activities?<br />
• Did you become more aware of your own emotions and feelings?<br />
o Was this linked to the change in sense of your femininity?<br />
Transformation<br />
Q – On the last page of the transcript, you say, “I have been rebirthed as the new me”.<br />
• How would you describe the old Rob?<br />
• What attributes and goals did he have?<br />
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