His case is different than the Lighning Lord's or Lady Stoneheart's.
It's established, through point of view of Varamyr Sixskins in the prologue of A Dance with Dragons that a skinchanger/warg can live a 'second life' in the body of a familiar after death. Varamyr tries, briefly, unsucessfully to enter the body of a spearwife when he dies and, failing, instead flees to the body of his wolf pack, especially its leader.
In the book, Jon's last word is "ghost". (In the show it's[et, tu], "Olly????!!")
And Melisandre's vision of Jon in the flames sees him changing from man to wolf to man again.
It's more than reasonable to assume--in fact it's overwhelmingly probable-- that Jon's spirit has not died at all but is currently in the body of his direwolf, Ghost.
IN which case any resurrection will not be the same as the resurrection of the others. Whose minds were dead along with their bodies and thus came back damaged and unwhole.
However, there is a catch: the longer a 'warg/skinchanger' stays in the body of his familiar, the more bestial his spirit becomes as the animals soul and the man's soul begin to blend.
Eventually the man's soul is wholly subsumed in the animal's with little to no memory of the life lived as a man.
So the longer Jon stays in Ghost, the more direwolf-y, he's going to get.
I don't expect Jon to have lost anything when he comes back: but I expect him to gain ferocity and a certain primal way of acting more in keeping with a wild animal than a son raised in the manner of a Northern aristocrat.
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