Leaving home: Homesickness, place attachment, and transition among residential college students

Journal of College Student Psychotherapy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-48

  Tognoli, Jerome ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Home; Homesickness; Loss; Place attachment; Residential life

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845322091     PISSN: 87568225     EISSN: 15404730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J035v18n01_04     Document Type: Article

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