Homesickness

Homesickness

Homesickness: Do Personality and Culture Play a Part?

Published in J.-C. Lasry, J. Adair, K. Dion, Latest Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2020

Homesickness has been variously defined in the literature as a cognitive state characterized by profound and frequent attention to home-related thoughts. These thoughts are not focused on problems connected to home or resulting from leaving home, but are instead uncontrollable ideations of home. The concept seems to exist in many languages.

Silently Screaming in the Dark: Gender-Based Dynamics of Distress in Japanese Migrants

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Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020

Courtney Julia Burns, Denise Marie Saint Arnault

Difficulty Coping with New Surroundings referred to the distress caused by difficulty acclimating to new environments. The challenges experienced by interviewees that lead to this subconcept do not include linguistic impediments accounted for in Dependency on Others. A common manifestation of this subconcept was homesickness. One woman complained, “I got terribly homesick. I was far away from [my sisters] and could not see them… I cried every time I talked with them on the phone” (R553). A second woman elaborated on the intersection between homesickness and her social life through her statement, “it’s difficult to tell my feeling of wanting to go back to Japan to my friends who are enjoying the US” (R300).

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