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her daily activities and childhood events. The conceptual framework of the research can be seen below.
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Figure 1. Conceptual Framework
Amy’s Personality Disorder in Flynn’s Gone Girl: A Psychological Approach
Psychological Approach
Personality
Personality Disorder Cause:
1. Genetics
2. Childhood
Trauma 3.
Verbal Abuse
4. High
Reactivity 5. Peers
Types 1.Paranoid PD
2.Schizoid PD 3.Schizotypal
PD 4.Antisocial PD
5.Borderline PD 6. Histrionic PD
7.Narcissistic PD 8. Avoidant PD
9.Dependent PD 10.
Obssessive- Compulsive
PD Characteristics of
Antisocial Personality
Disorder:
1. Failure to
conform social norms
2. Deceitfulness
3. Impulsivity
4. Irritability and
Aggressiveness 5.
Reckless Disregard for
Safety of Self or Others
6. Consistent
Irresponsibility 7.
Lack of Remorse
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
Words, Phrases,
Clauses, Sentences,
and Paragraphs
RQ. 1 RQ. 2
DSM-IV
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. The Research Design
This research uses qualitative research as the approach. According to Creswell 2003: 18, qualitative research is a type of research in which the inquirer results
knowledge based on constructivist perspectives, advocacyparticipatory perspectives, or both. In addition, VanderStoep and Johnston 2009: 7 also state that qualitative
research results narrative or textual descriptions of the research itself. Since the data is narrative, the result of this research design is usually rich in the description of
sample VanderStoep and Johnson, 2009: 8. The researcher is able to get deeper understanding about the phenomena occurred during the research.
In qualitative research, the forms of data used are words and pictures. That is the reason why qualitative research is suitable for this research since the data of this
research were words, phrase, clauses, and paragraphs. The data found in this research are used to identify the actions and behaviors of Amy Dunne, the main character of
Gone Girl that reflect her personality disorder and reveal the causes of personality disorder she suffers. The researcher used the description of the data to obtain deeper
understanding about personality disorder found in the literary work. Besides qualitative research, the researcher also used content analysis to
conduct this research. According to Neuendorf 2002: 10, content analysis is “a summarizing, quantitative analysis of messages that relies on the scientific method
