Ehm. Eurelingsbontekoe et al., PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIORAL ANTECEDENTS OF HOMESICKNESS, Personality and individual differences, 16(2), 1994, pp. 229-235
This study concentrates on personality characteristics and behavioral
features of military conscripts suffering from homesickness. A compari
son is made with healthy controls and with conscripts suffering from p
sychiatric symptoms of a different nature. Although the two pathologic
al groups share several characteristics in comparison to the healthy g
roup (elevated scores on Shyness, Psychopathology, Inadequacy, Social
Inadequacy, and Hostility), homesick subjects also display certain spe
cific features not-or far less-observed among the psychiatric control
individuals (in particular, higher scores on Somatizing and Rigidity a
nd lower scores on Extraversion, Negativism, Dominace, and Self-esteem
). In addition, typical of homesick conscripts is the strong emotional
tie to their parents and the strong need for social support. Moreover
, they had experienced homesickness in their childhood. Given the retr
ospective nature of the present study, the need of prospective studies
is stressed.