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There are a lot of economic migrants coming to Moscow from the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet republics), as well as from other Russian towns. They deal with many hardships: finding accommodation, work, friends, getting accustomed to new life. During the study of 2010-2012 on young people (18-25 y.a.) after recent suicide attempt by poisoning in the department of toxicology, N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, we included a sample of economic migrants (29 respondents (16%)) in the main sample of 180 respondents. Migrants attempters did not differ from Moscow residents attempters on any psychological variable (time perspective, attachment style, hardiness, depression, death attitudes), but differed on values (Schwartz Value Survey-57). Economic migrants were higher on the value of Conservation (t(171)=2.486, p=.014, CI [.06; .51], dCohen=.557), lower on Self-Transcendence (t(171)= -2.186, p=.03, CI [-.41; -.02], dCohen=.429), and marginally low
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