Support and supervision can be used as a strategy, for empowering nurses to meet the challenges of working with HIV/AIDS patients.

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The present study investigated the motivational goals, group identifications, and psychosocial adjustment of Jews who returned to Russia after emigrating from the republics of the Former Soviet Union to different countries (n = 151). To gain a deeper understanding of these returning migrants, their traits were compared with those of Jews living in Russia who did not emigrate (n = 935). Compared to locals, returnees reported a higher preference for the openness to change and self-enhancement values and a lower preference for the conservation values; there was no difference in the self-transcendence values. Returning migrants had a relatively weak affiliation with the home country: they had a weaker identification with the home country than with the country of emigration, their identification with Russians was weaker than that among Jews who did not emigrate from Russia, and their intention to emigrate (again) from Russia was greater than that among locals. However, the Jewish identification of returning migrants was similar to that of locals. The adjustment of returning migrants varied across different dimensions: their economic adjustment was better than that of locals; however, the interpersonal adjustment of returnees was less successful than among locals.

The paper explores the notions of risks on the Internet in teachers and high school students. The study was carried out on a sample of teachers (n = 294) and school students of 9—11 grades (n = 180) using the analysis of social representations (Abric coefficient).The results confirmed that only a small part (5 out of 29) of the teachers’ notions about the riskiness of Internet communication is related to the use of the Internet; mostly they are based on some general ideas concerning risk behaviours in adolescents. At the same time, the teachers were not quite ready to cooperate with their colleagues to help reduce such risks: only 41.5% of the teachers showed readiness, given that they receive appropriate training. The study confirmed that the notions of risks associated with the active use of the Internet differ significantly in teachers and students, which can be explained by at least two reasons. Firstly, by the fact that the active use of the Internet does not affect the subjective well-being of the adolescents. Secondly, by the fact that for high school students, the Internet is a natural tool and a necessary attribute of their daily life, whereas, according to the outcomes of our study, only 20% of the teachers believe that they have the necessary skills to freely use the Internet as a means of their teaching activities. For the rest of the teachers, the Internet is still an object that must be mastered and treated as a source of threats and risks to the psychological development of schoolchildren.

In the present study, we examined satisfaction with life (SWL), group identifications, perceived discrimination, and socio-economic status among immigrants and stayers. The study had two main objectives: 1) to test the morbidity and salutary hypotheses of immigration by comparing the psycho-social characteristics of immigrants and stayers; 2) to test a resource model of wellbeing among immigrants and stayers by investigating the effect of different resources and stressors on SWL. The study was conducted using a random representative sample of firstgeneration immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel (n = 400) and a not-random large and geographically dispersed sample of Jews staying in Russia (n = 935). The comparison of immigrants and stayers revealed that immigration is a mixed blessing, salutary in some aspects and onerous in others. In general, immigrants were more satisfied with their life than stayers. In addition, identification with the country of residence was stronger among immigrants than stayers. However, immigrants reported a higher level of perceived discrimination, and their socio-economic status was lower than that of stayers. Socio-economic status, identification with the country of residence, and perceived discrimination were directly connected to SWL among immigrants and stayers. In addition, among stayers, identification with the ethnic minority group was connected to SWL, while among immigrants, identification with the country of origin was not connected to SWL. Socio-economic status and perceived discrimination also affected SWL indirectly, through their connections to identification with the country of residence among immigrants and stayers and through their connection to ethnic identification among stayers.