Data Analysis Trustworthiness RESEARCH METHOD
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54 occurrences in the data of language abnormalities. In fact, the first table shows that Mary only experiences five of them, i.e. perseveration, non-logical reasoning
peculiar logic, looseness, weakening of goal, and poverty of speech which has its own percentage each other.
The first most-often appearing phenomenon is perseveration. It occurs 25 times from the total of 54 occurrence. In other words, from the total 100 , its
percentage is 46.30 . Following perseveration, as the second most-often appearing phenomenon, there is non logical reasoning peculiar logic. It occurs
13 times with the percentage of 24.08 . After that, there is looseness which appears 12 times and its percentage is 22.22 out of the total 100 . The next
rank is weakening of goal which appears 3 times with the percentage of 5.55 . Finally, the last rank is poverty of speech. It only happens once. This way, its
percentage is 1.85 which becomes the smallest occurrence of the phenomenon. Perseveration gets the highest occurrence of all items since a
schizophrenic has a disorganized thought influencing her words’ production. It occurs when Mary as a schizophrenic character repeats the same word, phrase,
and sentence continuously. Besides, her speech is also uncontrollable in delivering sufficient information. Thus, the occurrence of perseveration is easier to be
recognized as the language abnormalities than the others. Meanwhile, Mary often triggers her thoughts which are caused by
hallucination and delusion. She often experiences false belief which makes her difficult to justify the situation surround her. In fact, she has an illogical thinking
disrupting her normal thought. That is why, the occurrence of peculiar logic is
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also high following perseveration. Actually, both items show the language abnormalities which are commonly found in the schizophrenia. On the other hand,
poverty of speech gets smaller occurrence since not all of schizophrenic responses are lack of elaboration. In this case, a schizophrenic character likes to give more
explanation in elaborating what she thinks, feels, sees, and hears. While, the other types of language abnormalities like peculiar use of word, peculiar sentence, and
distractibility do not occur in this research. Peculiar use of word does not occur since a schizophrenic character tends
to use common words that can easily be understood by her husband, child, and the others. Hence, Mary as a schizophrenic still speaks in an ordinary language so the
meanings are quite understandable by her surroundings. Peculiar sentence does not appear in this research either because Mary’s speeches can be considered as
having a normal structure although the cohesion between ideas is tenuous or absent. Meanwhile, when she makes a conversation, she still gives a focus to what
the information is about. Thus, she has no chance to change her topic suddenly. It shows that there is no distractibility in her speech.