Moving away from home always lead most university students to feel homesick that negatively impacts their academic performance and excessive acculturative stress can contribute to eating and sleeping problems, low energy and headaches. Severe homesickness is classified as an adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood that in some critical cases leads to suicide. To consider this ...

The transition to college or university can be an exciting new experience for many young adults. For some, intense homesickness can make this move difficult, even unsustainable. Homesickness--defined as the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home--carries the unique hallmark of preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects. Sufferers typically repor...

INTRODUCTION Anxiety is an emotional and physiological response to the internal felling of overall danger that is easily resolved. The aim of this study has been to determine the relationship between exam anxiety and the feeling of homesickness among non-native students. METHODOLOGY The present study is cross-sectional and the subjects in this study are 80 non-native male and female PhD candi...

This study investigates how international students' identification with various social groups to which they belong influences their (mal)adjustment the host country. One hundred and forty-three students were asked report people from home country, students, foreign people, as well perceived discrimination, homesickness, loneliness. The results revealed more harmful effects of group than protecti...