A health psychologist is investigating the psychological impact of transitioning to retirement among former emergency service workers (paramedics, firefighters, and police officers).
To conduct this research, she distributes an online questionnaire to 120 recently retired service members. The questionnaire contains closed-ended rating scales assessing their levels of identity loss, daily routine satisfaction, and social isolation.
After analyzing the questionnaire scores, the psychologist decides to conduct follow-up face-to-face interviews with a subset of the participants who reported extremely high levels of identity loss but also high levels of daily routine satisfaction.
Explain why the psychologist might choose to conduct face-to-face interviews with these participants in addition to analyzing their questionnaire responses.
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