Self-Efficacy and Homesickness in Iranian Students in India

Every year many students are leaving their homes to go college. This brings new opportunities for individuals, but will face them to challenges and pressures like homesickness. India Universities in Asia attract large population of Iranian students and many Iranian graduated students in India Universities are working in Iran. This study examined the relationship between self-efficacy with Iranian students' homesickness in India. Research method was descriptive and study population was all male and female students who are currently studying in India. Through available sample, 100 male and female students (77 boys, 23girls) at Banaras Hindu University, JNU and Delhi University responded to questionnaires on February 26 (International Students Day at these universities). For data collection, Schwartz Self-efficacy questionnaire (1999) and Van Vilet's Homesickness Scale (2001) were used. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data, and the data were analyzed by Pearson correlation test. The findings suggested that self efficacy has significant and reverse relationship with "Nostalgia for family" and "loneliness" of homesickness's components, and has direct and significant correlation with "adaptation" of homesickness, finally there was no significant correlation between self efficacy and "the desire to return home"(p<0.05). By using of results of this research and studies have been conducted on homesickness, we can identify individuals at risk for mental breakdown which has significant correlation with poor academic and social performance in university to do timely actions for interventions in controlling stress and prevention from depressive symptoms and self-handicapping.