Abstract
This study concentrates on personality characteristics and behavioral features of military conscripts suffering from homesickness. A comparison is made with healthy controls and with conscripts suffering from psychiatric symptoms of a different nature. Although the two pathological groups share several characteristics in comparison to the healthy group (elevated scores on Shyness, Psychopathology, Inadequacy, Social Inadequacy, and Hostility), homesick subjects also display certain specific features not—or far less—observed among the psychiatric control individuals (in particular, higher scores on Somatizing and Rigidity and lower scores on Extraversion, Negativism, Dominance, and Self-esteem). In addition, typical of homesick conscripts is the strong emotional tie to their parents and the strong need for social support. Moreover, they had experienced homesickness in their childhood. Given the retrospective nature of the present study, the need of prospective studies is stressed.
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