DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
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• 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 />
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 your attitude towards money?<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 />
Gender Identity: Animus and Anima<br />
• In the first interview, there is a sense that when you were younger, you were a bit of a<br />
tomboy, ie. cricket and rugby, and also hanging out with boys. Would you say that’s<br />
fair?<br />
• Before crisis, would you have described yourself as “in touch” with your feminine<br />
side?<br />
• How would you describe your relationship with your femininity?<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 />
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 />
Development<br />
• You mentioned that you see yourself as constantly changing – that the self now is<br />
different from the self then and will be different from the self in ten years.<br />
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