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Psychological Home, Transitions and Well-Being
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Psychological Home, Transitions and Well-Being

A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 14035

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Dr. Paola Cardinali

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Department of Human and Social Science, Universitas Mercatorum, 00186 Rome, Italy
Interests: psychological home; family relationships; foster care; immigration paths and acculturation processes; self-determination; wellbeing and quality of life, especially in childhood and adolescence
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses the role of the Psychological Home as an essential element in people’s wellbeing, especially during transitions.

Psychological home has been conceptualized as a dynamic process through which people structure and modify environments to reflect and communicate their self-identity, including elements of thinking, feeling, and doing. The cognitive components encompass the ideas that people have about the self in relation to the environment, the meanings, and opinions in relation to home. The affective components contain positive feelings, such as a sense of security, warmth, attachment, or familiarity that one experiences about home. The behavioral components include the actions in the construction, manipulation, and personalization of surroundings. Taken together, when a sense of psychological home is established, a person reports a sense of security and protection and may experience being separate from others while maintaining a sense of belonging to the group when it is together. It reflects an individual’s psychological need to identify a sense of self with a physical location.

Literature underlines that home might provide comfort and meet social and physiological needs, furthermore, home has been positively connected to recovery and healing, life satisfaction, and sense of community.

Recent studies, associated with quarantine imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic, also highlighted a strong impact of the relationship between people and their homes on mental health.

From a psychological point of view, home may assume great importance in the well-being of people that are facing a transition (e.g., migration, displacement, retirement, divorce, illness…) because persons might change totally or partially their place of living and this requires them to rebuild a sense of home in a new relational and physical context.

These considerations suggest the importance of studying psychological home during transitions because it might act in a protective sense, compared to the loss experiences that transition entails. 

This special issue welcomes original research articles (quantitative or qualitative), reflective accounts and reviews on the role of the psychological sense of home in promoting people well-being during life transitions.

We welcome contributions from social sciences including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and social work, together with interdisciplinary papers. 

Potential authors are kindly asked to send titles and abstract to Paola Cardinali ([email protected]).

Prof. Dr. Paola Cardinali
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • psychological home
  • wellbeing
  • family transitions
  • migration
  • homelessness

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Understanding the Migration Intention of Psychological Home in Cyberspace
by Sheng-Cheng Lin and Xuan-Ru Zheng
Behav. Sci. 2023, 13(1), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13010071 - 13 Jan 2023
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The present study views the personal main page on social media as a psychological home in cyberspace, since they have identical characteristics. Many young people share their lives on social media. However, a backlash is triggered among young people when parents start to [...] Read more.
The present study views the personal main page on social media as a psychological home in cyberspace, since they have identical characteristics. Many young people share their lives on social media. However, a backlash is triggered among young people when parents start to use social media and attempt to participate in their children’s online activities, causing young users to migrate social media platforms. This study introduced two concepts of psychological home, self-disclosure and psychological ownership, and the research purpose aims to investigate the relationships between self-disclosure, psychological ownership, and migration intention based on the expectation-disconfirmation theory. A survey research method was used in the study. A total of 561 samples were collected through online questionnaires, and SmartPLS 4.0 was applied for analysis. The results reveal that (1) parental involvement in social media has a positive relationship with dissatisfaction; (2) disconfirmation of psychological ownership and disconfirmation of self-disclosure have a negative relationship with dissatisfaction; (3) the greater the users’ dissatisfaction with social media is, the greater the intention to migrate social medias. Full article
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Finding a Secure Place in the Home during the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Pattern-Oriented Analysis
by Tamás Martos, Viola Sallay and Silvia Donato
Behav. Sci. 2023, 13(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13010009 - 22 Dec 2022
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In challenging times, home is frequently the primary basis of environmental self-regulation processes, individual and relational coping, and well-being. This study aimed to identify multiple types of security experiences at home during the first lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used data [...] Read more.
In challenging times, home is frequently the primary basis of environmental self-regulation processes, individual and relational coping, and well-being. This study aimed to identify multiple types of security experiences at home during the first lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We used data from 757 Hungarian adults who completed the online, modified form of the Emotional Map of the Home Interview method in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants imagined their homes, chose the place of security in their homes and rated their personal experiences (i.e., experiences of agency, communion, self-recovery, and distress) related to these places. Latent profile analysis of personal experiences revealed four types of relational-environmental self-regulation in secure places: “security in active self-recovery,” “security in detachment,” “security in doing and feeling good enough,” and “security in stress and compensation.” Profile membership was predicted by age, gender, and indices of psychological support and well-being. Results suggest that finding psychological security in the home is a multifaceted phenomenon that may be partly affected by the perception of the broader social-ecological context. Identifying subpopulations vulnerable to the challenges of the pandemic may help researchers and practitioners provide better support in times of local and global crises. Full article
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In My New Home: The Daily Lives of People Living in Public Houses after a Long Period of Homelessness
by Marta Gaboardi, Chiara Bonechi, Eleonora Zamuner and Massimo Santinello
Behav. Sci. 2022, 12(11), 416; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12110416 - 27 Oct 2022
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Homelessness refers to a loss of social relationships and a condition of isolation and stigma that affects a person’s well-being. Although the literature has revealed the crucial role of a home in a person’s well-being, few studies have explored the daily lives of [...] Read more.
Homelessness refers to a loss of social relationships and a condition of isolation and stigma that affects a person’s well-being. Although the literature has revealed the crucial role of a home in a person’s well-being, few studies have explored the daily lives of people who transition from homeless services to an independent home. People who experience homelessness are at risk of remaining connected to homeless services even after finding a home. This study aimed to explore the daily lives of people who have obtained public housing, focusing on their daily relationships and the places they frequent. Data were collected through interviews with quantitative and qualitative measures involving 14 people with a history of homelessness who had obtained a public house in a medium-sized Italian city. Several themes concerning social relationships and places were identified. Regarding social relationships, people experience loneliness or a connection with the community and homeless services. They spend their time alone at home or around the city. The implications of the results are discussed with respect to practice and research on homelessness. Full article
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Home Away from Home: Comparing Factors Impacting Migrants’ and Italians Sense of Psychological Home
by Andrew P. Camilleri, Joseph R. Ferrari, Vittoria Romoli, Paola Cardinali and Laura Migliorini
Behav. Sci. 2022, 12(10), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12100387 - 10 Oct 2022
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Psychological home is an understudied concept within community psychology, especially focused on migrants. Previous literature on psychological home found a positive relationship with well-being and resilience in general populations and migrants. Studying psychological home in migrants may provide important tools to buffer various [...] Read more.
Psychological home is an understudied concept within community psychology, especially focused on migrants. Previous literature on psychological home found a positive relationship with well-being and resilience in general populations and migrants. Studying psychological home in migrants may provide important tools to buffer various stresses associated with migration. The present study explored the relationship between psychological home and demographic factors, including dwelling type and situation between migrants (n = 132) and Italian citizens’ population (n = 76). Results offer theoretical reasons explaining the differences in the meaning of home between migrant and non-immigrant populations. Full article
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Older Adults and Clutter: Age Differences in Clutter Impact, Psychological Home, and Subjective Well-Being
by Helena L. Swanson and Joseph R. Ferrari
Behav. Sci. 2022, 12(5), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12050132 - 3 May 2022
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Previous research found mixed results for clutter’s impact on individuals’ sense of home and subjective well-being in a variety of samples. In this retrospective cross-sectional study, archival data were utilized to examine the relationship between clutter, psychological home, and subjective well-being across two [...] Read more.
Previous research found mixed results for clutter’s impact on individuals’ sense of home and subjective well-being in a variety of samples. In this retrospective cross-sectional study, archival data were utilized to examine the relationship between clutter, psychological home, and subjective well-being across two age categories, specifically older adults aged ≥65 (n = 225), and younger adults aged ≤64 (n = 225). Three moderation analyses used age categories as a moderator exploring the relationship between (a) clutter predicting psychological home, (b) psychological home predicting subjective well-being, and (c) clutter predicting subjective well-being. Results found that age categories significantly moderated the relationship between clutter and psychological home but did not moderate the other variable relationships. Full article
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