The Research Design RESEARCH METHOD

33 All of the data collected by the researcher are meant to answer the objectives of the research. The researcher used APA’s DSM-IV focused on Antisocial Personality Disorder to answer the first objective of the research i.e. to identify the actions and behaviors of Amy Dunne that reflect her personality disorder. According to APA’s DSM-IV 2000: 645, a person can be diagnosed as having antisocial personality disorder if he or she shows the characteristics of antisocial personality disorder, namely failure to conform social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety of self or others, and lack of remorse. The researcher also used psychological theory focused on the cause of personality disorder to answer the second objective of the research i.e. to reveal the causes of personality disorder suffered by Amy, which can be tracked from her daily activities and childhood events. There are five main causes of personality disorder according to APA, which are genetics, childhood trauma, verbal abuse, high reactivity, and peers. In order to ease the process of the research, the researcher uses table list during the data collection process. The table lists were presented below, Table 1. The Table List of the Data for The Actions and Behaviors of Amy Dunne that Reflect Her Personality Disorder in Flynn’s Gone Girl No. Quotation of the Data Page Category Meaning 34 Table 2. The Table List of the Data for The Causes of Amy’s Personality Disorder No. Quotation of the Data Page Category Meaning

E. Data Analysis

In order to analyze the data, the researcher follows six steps of designing qualitative research as stated by Creswell 2009: 185. The six steps applied during the research are as follows. 1. Identifying the data collected from the novel. 2. Arranging the data according to the two major topics which are the actions and behaviors of Amy Dunne that reflect her personality disorder and the causes of Amy’s personality disorder in Flynn’s Gone Girl. 3. Categorizing the data in the table list according to the topics. The first topic, which is actions and behaviors of Amy Dunne that reflect her personality disorder, is categorized to seven categories: failure to conform social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety of self or others, consistent irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. The second topic, which is the causes of Amy’s personality disorder, is categorized to five categories: genetics, childhood trauma, verbal abuse, high reactivity, and peers.