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Intervallstudie: Entwicklungsfaktoren und Entwicklungsformen von Jugendlichen in der DDR (1968-1980) IS I - 1975 (8. Welle)
Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig
Politisches Verhalten und politische Einstellungen
Typical forms and courses of development of personality and social conduct of young people depending on social factors and conditions. Topics: Agreement of desired occupation and employment; satisfaction with choice of occupation; vocational training corresponds to expectations; public standing of occupation; sense of well-being in training or work collective; fulfillment of achievement demands; occupation pride; evaluation of significance of future working conditions for occupational satisfaction (scale); remaining in occupation and company after apprenticeship; desired school education for children; difficulties with mathematics and comparison with other classmates; frequency of reading regional and national newspapers and magazines; frequency of obtaining information about political events and mass-media preferred for this; frequency of reading certain categories; frequency of watching or listening to special broadcasts on radio and television of the GDR (scale); predominant use of GDR or West German stations on radio and television for political information; frequency of watching or listening to broadcasts of West German radio and television and reasons for this; reading the magazine "Neues Leben"; expected monthly gross income; occupation; pride to be a citizen of the socialist state; world view; solidarity with the working class; agreement of one's own interests with those of the socialist state; readiness to to do everything for the protection of socialism; evaluation of the following statements: working class and truth or right are united, readiness to take a stand for socialism, socialism is possible only under leadership of the working class, trust in leadership by the SED, exploitation of people by people is a problem of humanity, democracy requires freedom also for communists, democracy requires independence of politics from business interests, standing up for the ideas of communism; solidarity with the socialist native country; personal solidarity with the socialist GDR; reputation of imperialism as personal enemy; assessment of the western world as world of freedom; stand on national property; satisfaction with exercise of governmental power in the GDR; assessment of suppression and exploitation in imperialist countries; desire to become a communist oneself; evaluation of teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin; evaluation of West German power relations as just; motives for service in the NVA; presence of a friend and a circle of friends; age and sex of friends; frequency of meeting with friends; sense of well-being in one's circle of friends; comparison of circle of friends and FDJ group; member of FDJ and pride in this; acceptance of FDJ tasks; assessment of life in the FDJ group; age at first sexual intercourse (age at start of cohabitation); presence of further partners for sexual intercourse; assessment of relationship to parents; political discussions with parents; opinion in one's family on leisure time, music and dance, work morale, policies of the SED; model effect of father and mother; assessment of ability of parents regarding organization of leisure time, music and dance, work morale and policies of the SED; condition of health; frequency of physical complaints; days absent in school or work; frequency of use of nicotine; age at starting to smoke; primary residence; school education and occupational qualification of mother and father; type of home residence and existence of a personal room; evaluation of education as a goal in life.
Zentralinstitut fuer Jugendforschung, Leipzig
Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig (1996). Interval Study: Development Factors and Development Forms of Young People in the GDR (1968-1980) IS I - 1975 (8th Wave) (ZA6156; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.6156
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