Homesickness among foreign employees of a multinational high-tech company in the Netherlands

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 443-456

  Eurelings Bontekoe, Elisabeth H M ^a   Brouwers, Evelien P M ^a,b   Verschuur, Margot J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0034083111     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00139160021972612     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Arredondo-Dowd, P. M. (1981). Personal loss and grief as a result of immigration. Personnel and Guidance Journal, 59, 376-378.
2. Carden, A. L., & Feicht, R. (1991). Homesickness among American and Turkish college students. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 22, 418-428.
3. Charles, H., & MacStewart, A. (1991). Academic advising of international students. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 19(4), 173-181.
4. Cox, J. (1988). The overseas student: Expatriate, sojourner or settler? Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 78, 179-184.
5. Dijkstra, S. J., & Hendrix, M.J.J.L. (1983). Heimwee, een verkenning [Homesickness, an orientation]. De Psycholoog, 18(1), 3-10.
6. Ekblad, S. (1993). Psychosocial adaptation of children while housed in a Swedish refugee camp: Aftermath of the collapse of Yugoslavia. Stress Medicine, 9(3), 159-166.
7. Eurelings-Bontekoe, E.H.M., Verschuur, M. J., Koudstaal, A., van der Sar, S., & Duijsens, I. J. (1995). Construction of a homesickness questionnaire: Preliminary results. Personality and Individual Differences, 19, 319-325.
8. Eurelings-Bontekoe, E.H.M., Vingerhoets, A., & Fontijn, T. (1994). Personality and behavioral antecedents of homesickness. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 229-235.
9. Fisher, S. (1989). Homesickness, cognition, and health. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
10. Fisher, S., Elder, L., & Peacock, G. (1990). Homesickness in a school in the Australian Bush. Children's Environment Quarterly, 7(3), 15-22.
11. Fisher, S., & Hood, B. (1988). Vulnerability factors in the transition to university: Self-reported mobility history and sex differences as factors in psychological disturbance. British Journal of Psychology, 79, 309-320.
12. Greenberg, P. E., Stiglin, L. E., Finkelstein, S. N., & Berndt, E. R. (1993). Depression: A neglected major illness. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 54, 419-424.
13. Hojat, M., & Herman, M. W. (1985). Adjustment and psychosocial problems of Iranian and Filipino physicians in the U.S. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 130-136.
14. Larbig, W., Xenakis, C., & Onishi, M. S. (1979). Psychosomatische Symptomen und funktionelle Beschwerden bei Arbeitnehmer im Ausland - Japaner und Griechen im Deutschland, Deutsche im Ausland [Psychosomatic and functional symptoms of Japanese and Greeks in Germany, and Germans in foreign countries]. Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse, 25(1), 49-63.
15. Lu, L. (1990). Adaptation to British universities: Homesickness and mental health of Chinese students. Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 3, 225-232.
16. Mandic, N., & Ebling, Z. (1992). Stres i izbjeglice [Stress and refugees]. Socijalna Psihijatrija, 20(1), 69-80.
17. Miller, D. F., & Harwell, D. J. (1983). International students at an American university: Health problems and status. Journal of School Health, 53, 45-49.
18. Neto, F., & Mullet, E. (1982). Resultats d'un enquete sur les conditions de vie des migrants Portugais [Results of a survey on the conditions of living among Portugese immigrants]. Orientation Scolaire et Professionelle, 11, 355-368.
19. Nicassio, P. M., & Pate, J. K. (1984). An analysis of problems of resettlement of the Indochinese refugees in the United States. Social Psychiatry, 19(3), 135-141.
20. Norusis, M. J. (1992). SPSS/PC+: Base system user's guide version 5.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc.
21. Puritt, F. J. (1978). The adaptation of African students to American society. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2, 90-118.
22. Sandhu, D. S., & Asrabadi, B. R. (1994). Development of an acculturative stress scale for international students: Preliminary findings. Psychological Reports, 75, 435-448.
23. Schmitz, P. G. (1992). Immigrant mental health and physical health. Psychology and Developing Societies, 4, 117-131.
24. Sharma, S. (1973). A study to identify and analyze adjustment problems experienced by foreign non-European graduate students enrolled in selected universities in the state of North Carolina. California Journal of Educational Research, 24(3), 135-146.
25. Tikoo, M. (1994). The 1989-90 migration of Kashmiri Pandits: Focus on children. Psychological Reports, 75, 259-263.
26. Ward, C., & Kennedy, A. (1993). Psychological and socio-cultural adjustment during cross-cultural transitions. A comparison of secondary students overseas and at home. International Journal of Psychology, 28, 129-147.