Cultural-Historical Psychology
2021. Vol. 17, no. 4, 92–96
doi:10.17759/chp.2021170410
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)
Fifty Shades of Gray: Satisfaction with Life Among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel
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Keywords: General satisfaction with life, Multifaceted satisfaction with life, Relative satisfaction with life, Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel, Jews staying in Russia
Journal rubric: Empirical Research
Article type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2021170410
Funding. The study was partly funded by a grant from Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry and by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation
Received: 18.08.2021
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For citation: Tartakovsky E. Fifty Shades of Gray: Satisfaction with Life Among Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2021. Vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 92–96. DOI: 10.17759/chp.2021170410.
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