Homesickness

GLOSSARY

A negative emotional state primarily due to separation from home and attachment persons, characterized by longing for and preoccupation with home, and often with difficulties adjusting to the new place. See also déspaysment. Contrast with yearning.

An icon of a broken house and heart symbolizing divorce, family separation, and legal property division.
An icon of a broken house and heart symbolizing divorce, family separation, and legal property division.

Reference:

Stroebe, M., Schut, H., & Nauta, M. (2015). Homesickness: A systematic review of the scientific literature. Review of General Psychology, 19(2), 157-171. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000037