REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

TOPIC: HOMESICKNESS

The cognitive symptoms of homesickness can manifest as pervasive thoughts about

longing for and a desire to return home, and pessimistic views about the new
environment (VanTilburg, 1996). It is said that homesickness is the preference to go
home or to be reunited with family or loved ones, . But in the other hand
homesickness refers not only to the desire to go home but also to the desire to do
things or activities that are habitual to a person. A person who can no longer do the
things they usually do then continuously desiring to make them happen can also
considered as homesickness.

Prevalent among individuals regardless of race, age, and gender, risk factors including
geographic distance from home, perceived locus of control, and race have been linked
to a potential increase in vulnerability to homesickness (Fisher, 2017; Fisher, et al.,
1985; Sodowsky, & Plake, 1992; Sun, et al., 2016). Based on what cited below are the
said prevailing factors that are linked to a inherent increase in vulnerability to
homesickness. It is said that the race have been connected to the increasing of being
vulnerable in homesickness. Race is a category of humankind that shares certain
distinctive physical traits. The geographic distance from home is also stated in this
case the student can feel the homesickness especially and literally when they are afar
from their houses and as well to their family.

Homesickness is documented in various contexts; including, but not limited to: higher
education, boarding school, sleepaway camp, military deployment, migrant workers,
and immigration (Eurelings-Bontekoe, Vingerhoets, & Fontijn, 1994; Fisher, 2017;
Fisher, Frazer, & Murray, 1986; Hack-Polay, 2012; Tartakovsky, 2007; Thurber,
2005).Homesickness can be documented in various context just like for example is
boarding school as the focus of this study is the homesickness among in-house
students at Lyceum International Maritime Academy the information regarding this
matter is related in which military deployment, boarding school, sleepaway camp, and
many more are most likely the same as the in-house students are experiencing.

The start of college/university may be met with high demands in the aspects of
learning and following a new academic schedule, instruction style, and content,
adapting to a new social life, and overall adjusting to the demands of the transition
(Strayhorn, 2019). In conjunction with these high demands, first-year students may
also perceive a lack of control over their ability to overcome homesickness and have a
positive college experience (Fisher, 2017; Strayhorn, 2019; VanTilburg, 1996).
Therefore, homesickness has two effect in students life the first one is negative effect
which is the student can’t fpcus to the academic-related matter. The next one is
positive, because homesickness can be us as a motivation in a students to strive harder
and study harder.So that the student can be able to face or overcome every challenges
and grow independently.
In a higher education context, Fisher, Murray, and Frazer (1985) found that university
students in the United Kingdom that reported having the primary responsibility of
choosing to attend that particular university were less likely to experience
homesickness, in comparison to students that felt pressured to attend university by
parental influences. In this study, students who truly wants to study in a university are
the one who less experience homesickness rather than students who got pressured by
their parents to attend university.

Homesickness: A review of the literature. (apa.org)

EJ1255848.pdf (ed.gov)

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