Appendix B

Original Interview Guide

1. Experience question: Can you speak to me about a time in the past 11 months that you

have felt a relationship you care about being to falter or thrive due to covid-19?

Sub questions:

Was this a familial, friendly, or romantic relationship?

Have you noticed that certain types of relationships have weathered the

pandemic better than others?

2. Tour question: Can you walk me through what a typical day looks like for you during this

pandemic?

Sub questions:

Would you be able to talk me through the emotions you feel on a good day

versus a bad day during this pandemic?

Do you have good and bad days emotionally? Do you think these dips in

emotion are due to the pandemic?

3. Hypothetical question: Imagine this pandemic never happened; Do you think that you

would have still had to work this hard to maintain relationships with others?

Sub questions:

Do you think that you would have lost this relationship had the pandemic

never happened?
 Did losing this relationship cause additional emotional stress?

4. Posing the ideal question: In your opinion, what is the ideal way to communicate with

others?

Sub questions:

Is face-to-face the best way to communicate?

Do you prefer to talk on social media or via text?

Do facetime or talking on the phone make a conversation as satisfying as

having it face to face?

5. Compare/contrast question: How would you compare your mental health and well-being

now versus before the pandemic?

Sub questions:

(If worse) Have you talked about how the pandemic has affected you

emotionally with anyone?

Do you think your mental health will improve when life goes back to

normal?

6. Motives/others’ question: What has motivated you to maintain relationships throughout

this pandemic?

Sub questions:

Was there ever a question about maintaining these relationships?

7. Timeline question: Can you provide me with a timeline that describes how your mental

state has evolved throughout the past few months?

Sub questions:

Were there certain days/weeks/months that were worse than others? Why

do you think that was the case?

8. Timeline question: Can you provide me with a timeline that describes the way your

communication with friends/family/significant others evolved as the pandemic

progressed?

Sub questions:

Was there a period of time where you weren’t able to see anyone outside

of your household?

Did you leave school to go back to your family when the pandemic hit?

How did that impact your mental health? Did your relationships feel strained?

9. Factual issues question: Has the pandemic directly impacted your everyday life?

Sub questions:

How has the pandemic impacted your everyday life?

Have these changes in your everyday been more positive or negative and

why do you think that?

comfortable with the way things have evolved and progressed?

10. Behavior/action question: How has your behavior towards relationships changed, if at all,

in the last 11 months?

Sub questions:

Do you find yourself talking with people on social media more?

Have you needed to put in more work to maintain any relationships in

your life because of the pandemic?

Did you ever feel particularly negative about a particular relationship

because you did not feel satisfied mentally?

Updated Interview Guide

1. Ice Breaker: If you needed to assign Covid-19 a color, what color would it be and

why?

2. Can you walk me through roughly what your past year has looked like?

a. Maybe going month by month?

b. Or maybe going in order of big events you remember?

3. Let’s say that you were currently a senior in high school and not a senior in

college. Who do you think would be more heavily impacted by the pandemic,

high schoolers or college students?

a. Why?
 b. Does your experience influence your answer?

c. Is your answer based on society or your personal opinion?

4. Do you feel in any way that the pandemic has slowed down your maturity?

a. Do you feel behind others your age?

b. Did going home to live with your parents make you feel less mature or

independent?

5. Was your sense of self ever threatened because of the restrictions but on you by

the pandemic?

a. Did you feel like you lost yourself at any point?

b. Were you struggling to find your identity?

6. Are there any variations in your freedom levels between school and home?

a. Do you prefer being one place over the other?

b. What are the differences?

7. Has your motivation faltered or thrived throughout the pandemic?

a. Were you more motivated when you were home or in Arizona?

b. Was there no noticeable change?

8. Do you think it will be easy to get back to normal once all of the side effects of

the pandemic have subsided?

a. Will there be a learning curve?

b. Will we move toward normalcy too fast or too slow?

9. Did you ever feel like your mental health was fluctuating because of the

pandemic?

a. If so, when and/or why?