Factors and Forms of Development of Young People in the GDR (1968 - 1980) IS 1 - 1978 (11th Wave - Cross-Section)

Recording typical forms and courses of personality development
of GDR-youth in the 70's as well as their significant determinants.
Topics:
employment and work proving its worth (BAB):
attitude to chosen occupation;
characteristics of activity exercised;
job satisfaction;
sense of well-being, recognition in the work brigade, sense of responsibility;
fulfilling work demands, ability to achieve, attitude to FDJ work at work;
retrospective evaluation of occupational training;
self-assessment regarding work performance;
prestige of the occupation in public, reasons;
occupational plans such as remaining in occupation or company, change;
number of jobs up to now;
assessment of social relations in work collective,
work organization, the climate in the company;
occupational goals;
use of forms of further education and qualification;
attitude to the path of employment and training;
Political-ideological attitudes and world view (PIE-WAG):
certainty of the historical victory of socialism;
world view, attitude to religiousness of young people,
reconciliation of religious activity and progressive views;
interest in political events and philosophical questions;
ideological value orientations;
identification with the GDR, socialism, communism,
protection of the socialist state, the ethical basic values of socialism,
the working class;
commitment for political activity;
condemning the capitalist social system, the imperialist order in the FRG,
anticommunism;
attitude to military duty in the GDR;
image of the enemy;
Life satisfaction (ZUF):
satisfaction with political, technical, social, personal and other
conditions such as political development of the GDR, policies regarding the FRG,
housing situation, financial situation, material possessions,
partner relations, opportunities for qualification,
conditions of structuring leisure time, social support at work, life over-all;
Subjective retrospective on measures for education and training
as well as education needs (BIB):
assessment of the effectiveness of measures for education and
training at the occupational, technical school or EOS;
Mass communication (MKM):
political information practices;
preferred mass medium;
frequency of use of publications, radio and TV broadcasts,
differentiation on content;
choice of radio and TV station;
justification for reception of broadcasts from the West;
frequency of going to the movies, dance events;
reading belletristic books;
preferred structuring of leisure time on the weekend;
political-ideological attitudes, Marxist-Leninist conviction, proud citizen;
Group conduct (GGV):
affiliation, structure of the circle of friends;
friends of the same and other sex;
relations to FDJ collective;
assessment of the political effectiveness of one's own FDJ group;
Partner conduct and marriage problems (SEV-EHE):
desire for children, one's own children;
current partnership, commitment, age, occupation of partner;
attitudes to love, sexuality, pre-marital sexual intercourse,
abstaining from sexual intercourse given risk of unwanted pregnancy;
number of partners in sexual intercourse up to now;
attitude to and use of contraceptives;
Origin of family/family influence (ELT):
recognition of mother/father as model of conduct;
opinions and counseling ability of parents regarding
structuring leisure time, clothing, music, dance, sexuality, work morale,
child-raising, political-philosophical decisions, FDJ work;
share of house work realized.