Data Collection and Analysis
Naturalistic observations had been done on the informants, magnifying
their behaviors in the natural habitat such as in the classroom. They
have individually interviewed in which questions had their way of making
them look back certain episodes in their childhood, for as long as they
can remember, and were encouraged to ask certain questions to their
parents as to how they were when they were still infants and toddlers,
considering the natural inability to recall experiences during such
human development stages or what we call as ‘infantile amnesia’ .
Erikson contended the role of parents’ affection on the personality
(vis-à-vis self-concept of a person). The degree to which this affection
is translated on rearing the child becomes an element of creating a
balance between what we call ‘syntonic and dystonic’ .
The thematic analysis had been done in analyzing and interpreting the
collected data, utilizing the Colaizzi method (Mackey, 2005) that had
been influenced by the Heideggerian interpretive approach (Smith,
Flowers & Larkin, 2009). In doing so, ‘epoche’ or bracketing had
safeguarded that personal judgments and assumptions did not spoil the
process of collecting the data, upon which data saturation took place in
the occurrence of redundancy (Faulkner and Trotter, 2017).
Figure 1. Data analysis procedure