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