Text Gathering RESEARCH DESIGN
47 Berg 1989 in Miles and Huberman 1994: p.9 state that coding is giving tags or
labels for assigning units of meaning to descriptive information compiled during the study. In line with this definition, coding was done in this study in order to
find out the key content of the in-dept interviews. For example, the readers found a code like this: 1-W03-1-ET-T-SA. 1 represents Appendix 1. W03 represents
conversation number 3 with Ms Widi. 1 represent in-depth interview 1 with Ms. Widi. ET represents Emergent Themes. T represents Transcendent themes. SA
represents Self-actualization. It means that the readers can trace the code in appendix 1 and directly go to conversation 3 which is the first in-depth interview
of Ms. Widi and the theme is emergent themes which is transcendent theme and that is self-actualization. Abbreviation of all codes can be seen in the list of
abbreviation. The third step is writing description of each participant. The researcher writes
description of each participant based on five fields in lived experience: understanding, belief, intention, action, and feeling. They were used to prove the
empirical and transcendent themes. The fourth step is the researcher writes the description of the two participants. The researcher writes shared experience. In
gathering the data, each experience is appreciated. The fifth step, the researcher writes interpretations of each participant based on understanding, belief, intention,
action, and feeling. The six step is the researcher writes the interpretation of the two participants. The researcher writes the shared experience. The text needs to be
rich in order to discover the phenomenon. The text needs to be deep. According to Van Manen 1990: p.
152 “depth is what gives the phenomenon or lived experience to which we orient ourselves its meaning and its resistance to our
48 fuller understanding”. The seventh step is member checking. The researcher did
member checking to the participants related to the result of description and interpretation. The last step is final writing of description and interpretation. At
this step, the researcher drew conclusion. The researcher needed to review the analyzed data and assess the implication for the research question.