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Schülerintervallstudie IS II (jüngere Kohorte) 1979 - 1985 5. Welle 1983/84
Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig
Kulturelle Aktivitäten und kulturelle Teilhabe
Politisches Verhalten und politische Einstellungen
Einkommen, Vermögen und Geldanlagen/Sparen
Typical forms and courses of personality development and social conduct as well as of occupational training and work habits of young people and young adults depending on social factors and social conditions. Topics: General personal orientations: introversion and extroversion; general contentment with life; satisfaction with certain areas of life (scale); life planning and goals in life; life style orientation and private or occupational preferences; social responsibility such as self-respect, community spirit, striving for justice, partner fidelity, readiness for action; personal models; religiousness. Politics and society: political interest; political attitudes such as relationship to Marxism-Leninism, identification with communists, evaluation of future ability of the socialist social system, relationship to the socialist state, relationship to the GDR and the socialist social system, relationship to the FRG and the capitalist social system, relationship to the class enemy, relationship to the enemies of the socialist order; world view; attitude to religion; participation in religious events; membership and participation in the FDJ; individual significance of social-political work; social-political activities; political opinions of parents; influence of parental opinion on personal political opinions; political information; connection between use of FRG or GDR television and FRG or GDR radio and political orientations; knowledge about the statute books of the GDR; participation in the Jugendweihe {ceremony of adulthood}; wearing western symbols. Leisure and culture: leisure behavior; leisure interests; leisure activities and leisure occupations such as belonging to and participation in organized and non-organized leisure groups, cultural and athletic activities; availability of and possession of leisure consumer goods; media usage and media habits with radio, TV and daily newspapers; amount of pocket-money; monthly expenditures for selected goods, leisure activities and services; monthly time budget for selected leisure activities and leisure occupations. School: learning motivation; teacher-schoolchild relationship; sense of well-being in the class; participation in the Academy for Schoolchildren; achievement development in selected school subjects. Occupational training: conduct in choice of occupation regarding desired occupation and restrictions or advice; retrospective evaluation of selected education path or selected vocational training; influence of parental opinion on decision in choice of occupation; occupation interest; occupation attitude and tie to occupation; plans to remain in occupation; training and learning motivation; evaluation of theoretical or practical training conditions; achievement conduct in vocational training; evaluation of theoretical or practical achievement demands; assessment of coping with demands and personal achievement status. Work activity: work habits; work attitude; work motivation; models for work conduct. Family of origin: family size; number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; relation with parents: general relationship with parents, advice by parents with concerns and problems, difference of opinions with habits in various areas of life; parents relation with siblings. Partnership and sexuality: firm partner relation; sexual habits: age at start of cohabitation, frequency of ejaculation, frequency of sexual intercourse, frequency of orgasm. Cognitive abilities: individual courses of development of mental-intellectual capability; microsocial conditions of development and support of mental-intellectual capability such as occupations outside of instruction; participation in school competitions and achievement comparisons outside of school; expression of individual interests regarding mental-cultural activities and their influence on development of mental-intellectual capabilities; connection between school achievement, school degree sought, occupation orientation and development level of mental-intellectual capability. Physical development and health: physical growth; physical maturity; eating habits; drinking habits; participation in school or company group meals; habits regarding the use of semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol harmful to health. Sociodemographic characteristics: social origins: social affiliation, social status and occupational activity of...
Zentralinstitut fuer Jugendforschung, Leipzig
Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig (1997). Schoolchildren Interval Study IS II (Younger Cohort) 1979 - 1985, 5th Wave 1983/84 (ZA6191; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.6191
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