Research Design Data Collection Data Analysis

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH

3.1 Research Design

In this study, analyzing the psychological disorder of the main character of the animation, descriptive – qualitative method was used. This method is a scientific procedure to get conclusion from a particular thing to general idea based on the theory. Descriptive is used, when the data, which are used, are in form of written text or spoken text, such as words, phrase, clauses and sentences. According to Djajasudarma 2006: 11, “Metodologi kualitatif merupakan prosedur yang menghasilkan data deskriptif berupa data tertulis atau lisan di masyarakat bahasa” Qualitative method is a procedure resulting descriptive data in form of written text or spoken in language society. She also says, “Data yang dikumpulkan bukanlah angka – angka, dapat berupa kata – kata atau gambaran sesuatu.”Djajasudarma, 2006: 16. The collected data are not in the form of number, but words or description of something. Qualitative method also emphasizes the analysis on the deductive and inductive conclusion process toward the relation of observed phenomenon, using scientific logic. This method concerns on the effort of answering questions through formal way of thinking and argumentative way Azwar, 2004. This thesis focuses on the personality disorder of the characters which is related to psychology literature. 31

3.2 Data Collection

The source of data for this thesis is Black Rock Shooter animation series which consist of eight episodes that aired in 2012. The selected episodes are episode one until episode five where Kagari Izuriha and Yomi Takanashi take part. This animation was produced by Ordet and directed by Shinobu Yoshioka and Hiroyuki Imaishi also written by Mari Okada. The data are the dialogue between characters.

3.3 Data Analysis

Three steps were applied in analyzing the data. Miles and Huberman 1994: 10 states that there are three steps analyzing the data; data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing verification. First, eight episodes were watched to find and got the understanding about the attitude of disorder from the selected characters. The information about the personality disorder of the character that had been selected from the acting and the attitude of the characters, the dialogue or the surrounding of the characters were collected and identified After collecting the data, reduction was done by reading the dialogue and identified the attitude of the characters to find the indications of disorder from them. The theories of psychology books and theory of literature books were used to identifying the indication. Some information from the internet also used to support the analysis. Second, the data were displayed. And third, if data collection and reduction was done, conclusion and verification can be 32 made by analyzing the data using personality disorder theories by Barlow and Durand and hierarchy of needs theories by Abraham Maslow. 33

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING