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Intervallstudie: Entwicklungsfaktoren und Entwicklungsformen von Jugendlichen in der DDR (1968-1980) IS I - 1980 (12. Welle)
Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig
Politisches Verhalten und politische Einstellungen
Typical forms and courses of development of personality and social habits of young people depending on social factors and conditions. Topics: Satisfaction with occupation learned; sense of well-being in the learning or work collective; pride in occupation; use of various forms of further education (scale); remaining in occupation and company; evaluation of working conditions (scale); agreement between work activity and occupation learned; respect for personal opinion in the company; orientation along instructions given; feeling of responsibility for the achievements of the brigade; assessment of personal health and capability; achievement status in the collective; prestige of occupation; number of previous jobs; evaluation of personal path of education; evaluation of higher school requirements; assessment of the FDJ work in the company; school degree; final grades; certainty of the world-wide victory of socialism; pride in being a citizen of the socialist state; world view; evaluation of the following statements: readiness to take a stand for socialism, solidarity with socialist native country and socialist GDR; viewing imperialism as personal enemy; assessment of the western world as world of freedom; satisfaction with exercise of governmental power in the GDR; desire to become a communist oneself; attending religious events; concurrent marxist and religious views; development of personal socialist class standpoint and social activities; goals in life (scale); desire for children; number of children oneself; age at birth of first child; age at marriage; occupation of spouse; retrospective evaluation of school (scale); frequency of reading regional and national newspapers and magazines; frequency of obtaining information about political happenings and mass-media preferred for this; 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; evaluation of decisions made about occupational development, the path of education, the choice of partner; participation in the Circle of Young Socialists, member meetings of the FDJ, the MMM innovator movement, work actions, youth objects; military service performed; model effect of father and mother and assessment of the ability of parents in view of organization of leisure time, music and dance, work morale and policies of the SED; activity of parents in innovator movement; personal share in housework; satisfaction with policies in GDR and regarding the FRG, with the relation to parents, housing conditions, social contacts, income, personal possession, work activity, social support at work, qualification opportunities; age at start of cohabitation; age at first menstruation; marital status; personal housing; application for assignment of housing and its realization; type of residence at home; degree of employment; evaluation of goal in life education and further education; marital status; gross income last month; member of the SED; member of the FDJ and age at leaving; type and duration of functions exercised in the FDJ; leisure activities; condition of health; frequency of physical complaints; days absent in school or work; frequency of use of nicotine and alcohol; attempts to quit smoking; occupation of father and mother; personal occupation in 5-10 years; highest qualification currently and in 5-10 years; work area of father and mother; personal work area now and in 5-10 years; management functions of father and mother; personal management functions now and in 5-10 years; age of father and mother.
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 - 1980 (12th Wave) (ZA6160; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.6160
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