females said that they never exercised as a way to cope with homesickness. For texting and emailing, females text home more frequently at about four or more times a week compared to males who text only one or two times a week n=How frequently different coping mechanisms were used Next the participants were asked two questions about how often they have been home or had a family member or relative visit them since school started. A handful of respondents have been home three or more times and this could be because of their distance from home. The people who went home more than three times (75%) only lived less than 60 minutes away. 79% of students who lived seven or more hours away said that they had not been home since school started and only nine of them had been home one time. Many of the students also have any didn’t family or relatives visit them since school had started. Between both males and females, about 32% of them never had a family member visit them. Surprisingly, males had more visits, in a few cases, from their family members than did females. For the most part the numbers were close.
females said that they never exercised as a way to cope with homesickness. For texting and emailing, females text home more frequently at about four or more times a week compared to males who text only one or two times a week n=How frequently different coping mechanisms were used Next the participants were asked two questions about how often they have been home or had a family member or relative visit them since school started. A handful of respondents have been home three or more times and this could be because of their distance from home. The people who went home more than three times (75%) only lived less than 60 minutes away. 79% of students who lived seven or more hours away said that they had not been home since school started and only nine of them had been home one time. Many of the students also didn’t have any family or relatives visit them since school had started. Between both males and females, about 32% of them never had a family member visit them. Surprisingly, males had more visits, in a few cases, from their family members than did females. For the most part the numbers were close.
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