REPATRIATE SPOUSES' AND CHILDREN'S READJUSTMENT TO THE HOME COUNTRY AND THE IMPACT ON REPATRIATES READJUSTMENT

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dc.contributor.authorISMAIL, MAHAZIR
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-28T08:06:03Z
dc.date.available2016-01-28T08:06:03Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.description.abstractThe main objective of the present study is to examine the relationships between repatriate family members' (spouses and children) readjustment and repatriates' readjustment to their home country. There are many antecedents that are related to repatriate spouses and children readjustment. However, individual-related factors repatriate spouses and children are the main focus of the present study. Seven main hypotheses were formulated in order to achieve the objectives of the present study. A total of 207 repatriates, 177 repatriate spouses and 131 repatriate children are involved in this study and the respondents come from all around the world. The researcher found that flexibility of the repatriate spouses' personality characteristic is highly related to repatriate spouses' psychological well-being and their general readjustment to the home country. In addition, emotional stability also indicates as a strong antecedent for repatriate spouses' general readjustment. The findings of the present study also supports that satisfaction with new friends and acquaintances in the home country is negatively and significantly related to repatriate spouses' psychological well-being and general readjustment. Satisfaction with host country's oral pleasures (in term of food, drinks and languages) is negatively and significantly related to repatriate spouses' general readjustment. However, the present study was not able to support the relationships between the motivation to be expatriated again and repatriate spouses' readjustment process to the home country. For repatriate children the researcher found that satisfaction with new friends and acquaintances is positively and significantly related to their psychological well being and general readjustment to the home country. Furthermore, dismissive -avoidant attachment style among repatriate children is negatively and significantly related to repatriates' well being. The present study manages to indicate that repatriate spouses' and children's readjustment to the home country is important for repatriates' own readjustment process. For the repatriates the researcher found that their psychological well being is significantly related to their spouses' well being and children's general readjustment. For repatriates' general readjustment, the present study found that there is a positive and significant relationship with spouses' general readjustment. However, the present study found that working readjustment among repatriates has no significant relationship with their spouses' and children's readjustment. The present study's findings highlight that it is a must for repatriates to consider the success of readjustment process among their family members when they return to their home country. This is important since the readjustment process of their family members will give some impact to their readjustment and to their success in their career in the home country. In general, the researcher can conclude that, in every successful repatriate story there are his/her spouse and children who have been successfully readjusted to the home country.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1732
dc.subjectREADJUSTMENTen_US
dc.subjectREPATRIATESen_US
dc.titleREPATRIATE SPOUSES' AND CHILDREN'S READJUSTMENT TO THE HOME COUNTRY AND THE IMPACT ON REPATRIATES READJUSTMENTen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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