Purpose

Most of the studies in the field of homesickness are confined to students; this study aims to explore the feeling of homesickness among working professionals. Also, it tends to examine individual differences in the experience of homesickness across employees of different gender, ages, experience, family type, etc. The study also aspires to compare homesickness among military and civil employees.

Design/methodology/approach

The study explores five dimensions of homesickness, namely, missing family, missing friend, rumination about home, feeling lonely and adjustment problems. The collected data is subjected to reliability, validity and confirmatory factor analysis. Further, t-test and analysis of variance are used to explore homesickness differences across soldiers and corporate employees.

Findings

The study reveals that homesickness is significantly higher for employees in the male, unmarried, nuclear family, above the age of 45 years, and below the graduation category. Also, defense people experience more homesickness than civilian employees.

Originality/value

This study is one of the pioneer studies that compare homesickness among defense and civilian employees. Also, variables such as type of family, the experience of employees and marital status have hardly been explored in the literature of homesickness.

中文翻译：

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乡愁：国防和文职雇员及个人差异的比较研究

目的

乡愁领域的大多数研究仅限于学生；这项研究旨在探讨在职专业人员之间的乡愁感。而且，它倾向于检查不同性别，年龄，经历，家庭类型等雇员之间在乡愁经历方面的个体差异。该研究还希望比较军事和民用雇员的乡愁。

设计/方法/方法

该研究探讨了思乡病的五个方面，即失踪家庭，失踪朋友，对房屋的反省，感到孤独和适应问题。对收集到的数据进行可靠性，有效性和确认性因素分析。此外，t检验和方差分析用于探索士兵和公司雇员之间的乡愁差异。

发现

该研究表明，男性，未婚，有核家庭，45岁以上和毕业类别以下的雇员的乡愁明显更高。而且，国防人员比平民雇员经历更多的乡愁。

创意/价值

这项研究是比较国防和民用雇员的乡愁的开创性研究之一。而且，在思乡病的文献中几乎没有探讨诸如家庭类型，雇员的经历和婚姻状况之类的变量。