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Die Drogenaffinität Jugendlicher in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1997
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln
Drogenmissbrauch, Alkoholkonsum und Rauchen
The drug affinity of young people in the Federal Republic of Germany. Topics: leisure activities: personal life satisfaction; spending leisure time at home or outside the home; type and frequency of leisure activities exercised; frequency of attendance of Techno events and average length of stay in Techno clubs; size of social network; health-conscious conduct; models in media and peer groups; person to confide in and conversation partner for important matters; judgement on personal condition of health; self-assessment of extent to which informed about harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco and drug use; self-classification as youth or grown-up; self-confidence, satisfaction with self and attitude to family, supervisors and school (scale). Alcohol use: average daily drinking habits regarding alkohol-free and alcoholic beverages; information on alcohol use the day before, last Thursday as wellas last weekend; nformation on respective partners in consumption and place of alcohol use; alcohol use due to particular reason; judgement of various effects of alcohol use (scale); assessment of the health risk from consumption of 1 liter of beer, 1/2 Liter of wine as well as 5-6 schnapps per day; frequency of alcohol excesses; age at first occasion for alcohol intoxication; time of last alcohol intoxication; conversation partner when talking about harm to health that can come about from alcohol use and time since last last conversation on this topic. Tobacco products: age at first smoking or start of regular smoking; occasional smoker or regular smoker; average cigarette use; time of quitting smoking; preferred tobacco products and types of cigarettes (light, strong); preferred main brand; difficulties with quitting; reasons for not smoking and reasons for smoking; assumed smoking habits in five years; attitude of friends to quitting or starting smoking; frequency of attempts to quit smoking; perception of general notices on the jeopardy to health from smoking; knowledge of such notices on cigarettes packages and time since reading such a notice; perceived cigarette advertising at the movies, in a newspaper or magazine or on bill-boards; attitude to prohibition of cigarette advertising; time since conversation about health dangers from smoking; attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking (scale). Drugs: degree of familiarity of selected drugs; attitude to use of selected drugs; contacts with drug users and their habits of using selected drugs; type of personal drug use and age at starting with the individual drugs; drug use alone or in company and place of drug use; frequency of drug use and time since last use; motives for use or reasons for rejecting drugs; Non-users: personal intent to use drugs, age, place and group in which there was an offer of drugs, personal reaction to this offer, reasons for rejecting drug use; advice from friends against use of drugs; self-assessment of extent to which informed about effects of drug use; interest in the topic of drugs and addiction; assessment of the possibility of young people to influence their friends not to use drugs; possibility to obtain illegal drugs within 24 hours; conversation partner in talks about drugs and addiction; time since last conversation about the dangers of drug use; content and cause of the conversation; personal readiness to motivate a friend not to use hashish or a user to abstain; personal success in motivating a user to abstain; knowledge of laws against drug possession; probability of being caught by the police when using hashish or ecstasy in public; assessment of physical and psychological dangers from use of hashish, heroin, cocaine as well as ecstasy. Health: frequency of selected physical complaints; use of medication to treat the complaints; frequency of using selected medications (sleeping pills, pain-killers, vitamins, tranquilizers, stimulants, appetite suppressant, laxatives and tonic); menstruation complaints and use of medication against menstruation complaints; comparison of the drug problem with the alcohol problem in Germany; use of information brochures about alcohol, drugs and smoking; knowledge about the "Federal Center for Health Education" (BZgA); spontaneous associations with the BZgA; familiarity of information ads on the topic AIDS and drugs; evaluation of information ads; interest in information publications about drugs, alcohol and smoking; willingness to pay for such publications and highest amount; membership in a sports club, leis...
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln (1999). The Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 1997 (ZA3138; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3138
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