Jena Study on Social Change and Human Development (Adults) 2007

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/hard finding a job, changes
in education/vocational training, personal motivation/commitment,
self-perception, changes in family life, personal coping strategies
with change (family, work, education/vocational training,
relationship), reaction to changes in everyday life (challenged:
religious belief, role of political parties, fewer guidelines
concerning right or wrong, customs/traditions from foreign cultures,
political/religious extremism); financial situation, overtime
(night/weekend shifts); free choice in type of relation; pursuit of
further education (more of it in leisure time), more offers for further
education available, increased importance of appearance/fitness, higher
level of independence and autonomy in work, precautions for old age,
workload eased by technology, easier to live according to own moral
concepts, job requires better interpersonal skills, new possibilities
due to new media, longer commute to work, leisure activities no longer
affordable, greater effort to attain standard of living, more
discretion towards other forms of life, learn more for job (languages,
technology), prepared to adapt to changes today; personal
characteristics: routine important in life, optimism/pessimism,
psychological well-being, self-esteem, problem-solving skills,
curiousness towards new things, comfort, leisure time and its
perception, role of others in life, role of personal environment,
activities in/member of associations, view on/perception of fellow
local inhabitants; quality/characterization of partnership; political
participation and interest, follow local daily press, neighbors,
activities with neighbors/other locals; state of health
(mental/psychiatric treatment), assessment of own health; recent
sensations: enthusiastic, happy, strong, proud, interested, alert,
animated, decide, attentive, active; suffering from: thoughts about
suicide, feeling of loneliness, melancholy, indifference, hopelessness
with regard to future, feeling of being worthless; experienced
following events: moving out of parental home, having sexual
encounters, parenthood, fully starting work, smoking cigarettes
regularly, no curfew; other changes/events that happen in life:
(parent’s) serious financial problems, death of a beloved person,
severe injury/sickness (of family member), victim of a crime, domestic
violence/sexual harassment, legal sentence/fine/imprisonment, severe
problems with someone close to you, lost something valuable, unplanned
parenthood, serious problems with educational/vocational training,
(child has) school problems, child’s/parent’s divorce/separation;
alcohol consumption (started drinking alcohol, being drunk, on how many
days drinking beer/wine/spirituous beverages), drug consumption; job
history, kind of job/job group; average weekly working hours (including
overtime), for how long employed in current job, temporary/unlimited
contract, development of job position within the last 12 months,
additional jobs (how many hours/week); registered unemployed/seeking
work, receiving unemployment/welfare benefits, last job/job category,
last time employed; willingness to move for job; categorization of
career development/vocational training (models), grade point average;
own household, renting, how many people in household (including
respondent), who else is living in household (father, mother,
step-father, step-mother, father in law, mother in law,
brothers/sisters, stepbrother/-sister, spouse, partner, own children,
stepchildren, adopted children, grandfather, grandmother, other
relatives, flat/housemate in shared accommodation, fellow pupil,
colleague/fellow trainee/fellow student, other non-relatives; personal
net income, own household, number of people contributing to household
income, net income of household, means for maintenance (own occupation,
occasional paid work, unemployment benefit, welfare benefit, social
assistance, support from parents, maternity benefits,
scholarship/grants/stipends, child-raising-allowance), changes in
income over past 12 months, financial support from parents (and
extent), state responsible for securing a solid income, state
responsible for providing jobs for everyone; contact with
state-governed inistitutions/facilities/organizations concerning social
security: employment office, social welfare office, youth welfare
office, family consulting service, marriage/family/life counseling
center, counseling centers for substance abuse, advisory service for
debtors, other; how often claimed financial state support; German
citizenship, federal state in which respondent was born, federal state
that had biggest influence on respondent’s life, gender, age
(integers), age categories, age by gender, weight.

Additionally encoded: site of interview, consent to further
participation in survey, sample, month of survey.

Demography: sex; year of birth; age; marital status; number of
children.

这项研究探讨个体应对社会变革所带来的实际要求的能力。广义而言，这指的是当宏观生活背景条件发生变化时，个体所面临的挑战。

教育/职业培训、有偿就业、工作意愿、婚姻状况、生活方式（单身、恋爱/已婚同居、恋爱/已婚不同居）、子女（子女年龄）、人生目标、总体生活满意度及特定生活领域满意度、生活挑战应对方式、自我评价、工作生活变化、求职难易度、教育/职业培训变化、个人动机/投入度、自我认知、家庭生活变化、个体应对变革的策略（家庭、工作、教育/职业培训、人际关系）、对日常生活变化的反应（受挑战的方面：宗教信仰、政党角色、对错相关准则减少、外来文化习俗/传统、政治/宗教极端主义）；经济状况、加班（夜班/周末班）；关系类型的自由选择；继续教育追求（闲暇时间更多投入）；更多继续教育机会；外貌/健康重要性提升；工作中更高的独立性与自主性；养老准备；技术减轻工作量；更易按自身道德观念生活；工作需更好的人际交往能力；新媒体带来的新可能；通勤时间延长；无法负担休闲活动；维持生活水平需更多努力；对其他生活方式更包容；为工作学习更多内容（语言、技术）；愿意适应当下变化；个人特征：生活中常规的重要性、乐观/悲观、心理健康、自尊、问题解决能力、对新事物的好奇心、舒适感、闲暇时间及其认知、他人在生活中的角色、个人环境的作用、社团活动/成员身份、对当地居民的看法/认知；伴侣关系质量/特征；政治参与度与兴趣；关注本地日报；邻居；与邻居/其他当地人的活动；健康状况（心理/精神治疗）；自我健康评估；近期感受：热情、快乐、强壮、自豪、感兴趣、警觉、活力充沛、果断、专注、积极；正在经历的感受：自杀念头、孤独感、忧郁、冷漠、对未来的绝望、无价值感；经历过的事件：搬离父母家、性经历、为人父母、正式开始工作、定期吸烟、无宵禁；生活中发生的其他变化/事件：（父母的）严重财务问题、挚爱去世、家人重伤/重病、犯罪受害者、家庭暴力/性骚扰、法律判决/罚款/监禁、与亲近之人的严重矛盾、丢失贵重物品、意外怀孕、教育/职业培训中的严重问题、（子女的）学业问题、子女/父母离婚/分居；饮酒情况（开始饮酒、醉酒、饮用啤酒/葡萄酒/烈酒的天数）；毒品使用；工作经历；工作类型/职业群体；平均每周工作时长（含加班）；当前工作任职时长；临时/无限期合同；过去12个月职位变动；兼职（每周时长）；登记失业/求职中；领取失业/福利金；上一份工作/职业类别；最后一次就业时间；为工作迁居意愿；职业发展/培训分类（模式）；平均成绩；自有住房；租房；家庭人数（含受访者）；家庭同住人员（父亲、母亲、继父、继母、岳父/公公、岳母/婆婆、兄弟姐妹、继兄弟姐妹、配偶、伴侣、亲生子女、继子女、养子女、祖父、祖母、其他亲属、合租室友、同学、同事/实习生/同学、其他非亲属）；个人净收入；自有住房；家庭收入贡献人数；家庭净收入；生活维持方式（自身职业、临时有偿工作、失业金、福利金、社会救助、父母支持、生育津贴、奖学金/助学金/津贴、育儿津贴）；过去12个月收入变化；父母经济支持（及程度）；国家负责保障稳定收入；国家负责为所有人提供工作；与社会安全相关的国家管理机构/设施/组织的接触情况：就业办公室、社会福利办公室、青少年福利办公室、家庭咨询服务、婚姻/家庭/生活咨询中心、物质滥用咨询中心、债务人咨询服务、其他；申请国家经济支持的频率；德国公民身份；受访者出生的联邦州；对受访者生活影响最大的联邦州；性别；年龄（整数）；年龄类别；按性别划分的年龄；体重。

此外编码的信息：访谈地点、同意继续参与调查、样本、调查月份。

人口统计学信息：性别；出生年份；年龄；婚姻状况；子女数量。