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Jena Study on Social Change and Human Development (Adults) 2005 - Reduced Version

Silbereisen, Rainer K.
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4749 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12679
Abstract: The study deals with individual capacities of coping with experienced requirements of social change. Broadly speaking, this refers to the challenges individuals are facing when macro-contextual conditions of life are changing. Education/vocatioinal training, gainful employment, willingness to work, marital status, way of life (single, in relation/married-cohabiting, in relation/married-not cohabiting), children (age of children), goals in life, satisfaction with life in general and specific areas of life, handling of challenges in life, self-evaluation, changes in work life, easy/har ... more
Topics: Working conditions | Employment | Social conditions and indicators | Social change | Specific diseases, disorders and medical conditions | PSYCHOLOGY

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 15.10.2005 - 15.01.2006
Geographic coverage: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (DE-MV) | Thuringia (DE-TH) | Baden-Württemberg (DE-BW) | Schleswig-Holstein (DE-SH)
Universe: Resident population aged 16 to 43
Number of Units: 2863
Sampling Procedure: Probability Sample: Stratified Sample: Disproportional Households were selected by a random route approach and respondents were chosen by the Kish-Grid method.
Mode of Data Collection: Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview) Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Data Collector: MARPLAN Forschungsgesellschaft, Offenbach am Main
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 515
Notes: In east and west Germany structurally similar federal states were chosen. For economically strong federal states this were Thuringia and Baden-Wuerttemberg; for relatively economically underdeveloped federal states Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig Holstein were selected. The age limitation allows to capture the transitions from adolesc ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Silbereisen, Rainer K. - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Center for Applied Developmental Science
Publication year: 2017
DOI: 10.4232/1.12679
Study number: ZA4749
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2017-04-28, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12679
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Pinquart, Martin (Hrsg.): Individuum und sozialer Wandel : eine Studie zu Anforderungen, psychosozialen Ressourcen und individueller Bewältigung. Weinheim: Juventa Verl. 2008
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Jenaer Studie zu sozialem Wandel und menschlicher Entwicklung | show all hits of the group
The project “Jena Study on Social Change” is part of the DFG (German Research foundation) funded Knowledge Portal “German Unification” within the Collaborative Research Center 580. Over a total of six waves it examines social developments after the change of regimes in Eastern Germany.

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Silbereisen, Rainer K. (2017). Jena Study on Social Change and Human Development (Adults) 2005 - Reduced Version. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4749 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12679.

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