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Measurement invariance of the modified Utrecht Homesickness Scale: a case of university students from four countries
The study is devoted to examining the measurement invariance of the
Utrecht Homesickness Scale
(
UHS
) across four countries while considering cultural characteristics. The sample consisted of 899 first- and second-year students: Indonesia (
N
= 182), Mexico (
N
= 142), Russia (
N
= 379), and Ukraine (
N
= 196) (
M
age
= 18.29,
SD
age
= 2.48); female-dominant at 74% (
M
age
= 18.56,
SD
age
= 2.49). In the original version, the UHS consisted of twenty items and five subscales:
Adjustment difficulties
,
Missing family
,
Loneliness
,
Missing friends
, and
Ruminations about home
. As hypothesized, the initial five-factor structure of the
UHS
was upheld but the HS pattern was specific in each country investigated. After removing three items via CFA, the original structure was restored. Convergent validity, reliability, configural, metric, and partial scalar measurement invariance of the
UHS
modified (
UHS-M
) instrument were achieved. The specific patterns of homesickness in each country are presented. It is concluded that the
UHS-M
can be recommended both for research and support programs for students suffering from homesickness while accounting for cultural characteristics.
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Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future
Traditionally, nostalgia has been conceptualized as a medical disease and a psychiatric disorder. Instead, we argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions. Nostalgic narratives reflect more positive than negative affect, feature the self as the protagonist, and are embedded in a social context. Nostalgia is triggered by dysphoric states such as negative mood and loneliness. Finally, nostalgia generates positive affect, increases self-esteem, fosters social connectedness, and alleviates existential threat.
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Amy's three best things
\"Amy may never have spent a night away from home, but today she declares that she wants to spend not one but three nights at her grandmas house packs a bag, and off she goes. During the day, she and Grandma have a lovely time, but when Amy is alone in bed she starts to miss her mother and her baby brother and their dog, Bonzo. Luckily Amy has brought her three best things for a visit, which offer a heartening taste of home in the most remarkable ways!\"--Amazon.com.
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The psychometric properties of the Utrecht Homesickness Scale among Chinese college freshmen
I examined the validity and reliability of the Utrecht Homesickness Scale (UHS) in the cultural background of China by translating the original UHS into Chinese. The formal scale was formed through exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and checks of internal consistency
reliability and test???retest reliability. The pretest and formal test samples comprised, respectively, 436 and 687 freshmen from universities in China. The final Chinese version of the UHS had 20 items separated into five dimensions: missing family, loneliness, missing friends, adjustment
difficulties, and missing home. According to the statistical results, the Chinese version of the UHS has adequate psychometric properties and can be used to assess the homesickness of college freshmen in China.
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Skating is hard when you're homesick
Alicia becomes homesick while on a school trip to Triumph Mountain, but with the help of her friend, she achieves her goal in ice skating.
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Cortex
My work centers on prose and lyrical poetry surrounding diasporic Central American narratives. I explore the stories of my family and their surrounding communities. Focusing on the loss, familial separation, colonization, and displacement that have occurred under the various adiministrations from Reagan through to Trump, my work investigates the first-hand effects of US intervention, immigrant journeys, generational trauma, and community resilience. “Cortex” is part of a cycle of poems written during the election season of 2024. The poems aim to understand the connection between longing and homesickness in times of explicit racism and bias. What does the diaspora call home in times like these?
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Shark dog!
Half-shark, half-dog Shark Dog ends up on the boat of a boy and his explorer dad, and becomes their pet. But when he gets homesick, he'll have to decide whether to go back to Shark Island or stay in his new home.
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The land of homesickness: The impact of homesteads on the social integration of rural migrants
Promoting the social integration of rural migrants is key to improving the mechanism of rural-urban integration and development. This study utilizes the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey and matched urban macro data to systematically explore the impact of homesteads on the social integration of rural migrants. Research has shown that social integration of rural migrants will be inhibited if they own homesteads. Simultaneously, the degree of inhibition varies according to the individual characteristics of rural migrants, the region to which they belong, and other factors. Specifically, when rural migrants aged 18 to 50 own homesteads, their degree of social integration into the cities they move into will be low. At the same time, for rural migrants in the central region, homestead ownership will not affect their degree of social integration. In addition, the mechanism analysis shows that increased housing expenditure inhibits rural migrants’ willingness to integrate. Meanwhile, owning contracted land and owning a house in the city also affect the degree of social integration of rural migrants to a certain extent. The findings of this study can broaden research on the effects of land on the free movement of population factors. In the meantime, it provides theoretical references for improving the level of social integration of migrants, enhancing people’s well-being, and improving the mechanism of urban-rural integration and development.
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