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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"homesickness"”.
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Homesickness in College Students: The Moderating Effect of Religiousness on the Relationship between Homesickness and Maladjustment
… role of religiousness in relationship between homesickness and depression, alcohol use, and risky sexual behaviors in freshmen college students. Data were collected on 312 freshman (195 female, 117 male, mean age = 18 years). Religiousness was found to moderate the relationships between …
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Adapting to Prison Life
… and later levels of psychological health' and homesickness. The research was conducted in two parts. The first was a preliminary study to modify a homesickness questionnaire (Archer et al, 1998) for use within a prison population. The modified questionnaire (HQ-P) demonstrated good reliability. …
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The transition experience to boarding school for male Aboriginal secondary school students from regional and remote communities across Western Australia
… School Environment and Belonging, Culture Shock, Homesickness, Identity and Rites of Passage, Code-Switching, Teachers, Academic Expectations, Residential Life, and Friendships and Peer relations, and 3) Relational Change and the sub-themes of Family Dynamics, Friendships at home, and Cultural …
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Fears and Reflections: Discovering Yourself Through the Personal Essay
… focuses on one idea (perfectionism, insecurity, homesickness, travel, self-centeredness) while including the middle child outlook. Each theme connects to one another by my middle child experiences, and at times, by examples of my parents' dispositions. I have attempted to share with the readers …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… between home and the ‗unheimlich‘ and homesickness, the blurred boundaries between the static and the mobile with regards to ‗home‘, and the continuous quest for new frontiers.
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Psycho-social difficulties experienced by first-entering students with their academic progress at higher education institutions: case study of a rural-based university
… psycho-social challenges, including anxiety, homesickness, social alienation, and cultural adjustment difficulties. These issues collectively hinder their academic engagement, concentration, and overall performance. Based on the data collected and analysed, the study makes several …
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The Ancient Art of Smile-Making
… a Good Dress” and “Myrtle Slog” illustrate the homesickness experienced by those who divorce themselves from closeness of the rural community. Sometimes we call “friendship” kitschy and cliché. And why is that? I made Perry and White’s bond a bit absurd because it is almost ridiculous that there …
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The Multicultural Goal: The Acculturation Experiences of Foreign Elite Athletes in the United States
… acculturation stressors such as injuries and homesickness, the majority indicated that none of these challenges they experienced were major. Findings with the professional foreign athletes indicated: a) an interest in learning about American culture, although actual cultural learning was quite …
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House and home in late Victorian women's poetry
… poems the house is a focus for nostalgia and homesickness. Yet it is also often a place which must be left behind. What unites the poets I have studied is the fact that the houses they inhabit in their work are never entirely their own and they are rarely entirely at home in them. Home is less …
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An exploration of the American College golf system: a developmental pathway for international student-athletes
… to impact negatively on progression (such as homesickness), it was found that the US college golf system creates a community and environment that positively impacts on the student-athletes development over time, thus equipping them with strong life skills, as well as with the tools to …
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First-year student retention: MAP-Works[superscript]TM early warning and intervention relationships
… GPA, Socio-Emotional, Test Anxiety, Peers, Homesickness: Distressed, Academic Integration, Social Integration and Environment were able to be associated significantly with retention from fall-to-spring semester. For international students GPA, Self-Efficacy and Self-Discipline were able to …
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Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
… battle fatigue, poor camp conditions, and homesickness, and they clearly favor the study of the Confederate deserter. The Union deserter has received only nominal consideration. This study is an effort to give the Union deserter some long-overdue attention. More specifically, it endeavors …
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HOW MENTAL HEALTH, SOJOURNER ADJUSTMENT, AND DRINKING MOTIVES IMPACT ALCOHOL-RELATED CONSEQUENCES FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD
… consequences; higher scores on the Homesickness/Feeling Out of Place subscale of the Sojourner Adjustment Measure would be associated with increased alcohol-related consequences; higher scores on the Coping Motives subscale of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised would be …
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Minority stress and depression among Black college students: investigating the protective contributions of faculty support and coping
… college transition (e.g., academic pressures, homesickness, psychological well-being, peer relationships), Black students must also navigate racial stress present within the various dimensions of their institutional environment. Structural inequality, mental health disparities, and the …
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Navigating psychological disruptions on the move: Instrumentalism, Altruism and Reattachment as Strategies for Sense-Making among Migrants
… failed to identify. The research found that homesickness and identity uncertainties were critical emotions that mine the migration journey. While this finding was to some degree arrived at by some of the papers, the review of all the papers showed that these emotional issues were prevalent …
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ACTION RESEARCH: PREPARING MALTESE FOOTBALL PLAYERS FOR MIGRATORY BASED TRANSITIONS
… club. Results evidenced that players experienced homesickness and lacked psycho-social knowledge and skills for an effective transition. Players also experienced culturally based challenges. The findings are framed around a unique and deeply embedded Maltese cultural identity. Study Two …
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A qualitative exploration of food acculturation among Nepalese international students at the Midwestern U.S. universities
… emotional and cultural well-being, leading to homesickness, cravings, feelings of disconnection, and cultural guilt. The study concluded that although some Nepalese students navigated dietary acculturation with relative ease, many faced significant challenges that affected their overall …
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Wild Country Hall: Children’s learning at a residential outdoor education centre.
… of the centre; encountering and coping with homesickness, living with new people, encountering strange customs and unfamiliar social practices. So important were these unfamiliar discourses to the participating children that they may be looked upon as ‘rites of passage’. The findings suggest …
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The adjustment journey of international postgraduate students at a university in England.
… at a time when students were beset with homesickness and loneliness. An association was made between the passage of time and a gradual decrease in acculturative stress; however, this was not a generalisable process; there was not only fluctuation in experience across the student body but …
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