The Homesickness and Contentment Scale: Developing a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Adjustment for Asians

Author:

Shin Heajong1,Abell Neil2

Affiliation:

1. Soonchunhyang University, South Korea,

2. Florida State University

Abstract

This article reports the validity and reliability of the Homesickness and Contentment (HC) scale. The HC scale is a 20-item scale that evolved from a 30-item Homesickness, Loneliness, and Depression scale. The HC scale is intended to be culturally sensitive to an Asian population in measuring emotional and psychological adjustment to a new culture. Unlike other measures of adjustment developed for and tested on Western samples, the HC scale takes into account the private nature of Asians when examining symptoms of homesickness and contentment. Data collected from 201 Chinese and Korean graduate students and spouses in an American university were used for various psychometric tests. Overall, the HC scale showed excellent subscale reliability, high global reliability, high face and factorial validities, and preliminary construct validity. Discussions on validity, reliability, and utility are presented.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Psychology,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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