Youth Health Survey 1992/93

Health-related problems of young people. Violence in one´s family.
Topics: Achievement orientation; self-assessment of school achievements
in comparison to classmates; perceived burdens from school (scale);
school aspiration level; certainty of achieving desired school degree;
scale of school mistakes such as risk of not being promoted, repeating
a grade or change of school; tutoring; expectations of father as well
as mother regarding one´s own school achievements; occupational
perspective after school; perceived certainty of being able to fulfill
one´s occupational desires; future expectations in the areas family,
health, environment and work (scale); description of family situation
regarding parents and siblings; social origins and employment of
parents; assessment of financial situation of the family; differences
of opinion with parents (scale); significant personal events in the
last year; group or clique affiliation; self-assessment of personal
position in the group; description of one´s own financial situation and
fulfilling all purchase desires; use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs in
social surroundings; description of personal conduct in selected social
situations and psychological self-characterization (scales);
self-esteem (scale); satisfaction in the areas school, housing,
finances, leisure time, parents, friends, teachers, schoolchildren and
personal contentment with life; health-conscious life; significance of
health; self-assessment of condition of health; illness as fate or
oneself able to influence condition of health (scale); person to
confide in or trust authority; frequency of use of alcohol and
cigarettes; age at starting regular use of alcohol and cigarettes;
expected development of use of alcohol and cigarettes; attitude of
parents to use of alcohol and cigarettes by respondent; semantic
differential of a cigarette smoker and user of alcohol; frequency of
use of hashish; frequency of use of sniffing materials, cocaine,
heroin, crack, stimulant or tranquilizing medications; short-term
possibilities of obtaining drugs; assessment of addiction potentials of
these drugs; self-assessment of extent to which informed about rights
of young people and assessment of the significance of knowing about
such rights; knowledge test about rights of young people (scale); most
important sources of information about these rights; assessment of
expected help from the law in quarrels with parents, friends, teachers,
neighbors or adult strangers; person to confide in with problems with
parents; knowledge of advice centers; judgement on selected forms of
physical punishment by parents or classmates, teachers and other
adults; preferred ways of solving conflict given differences between
children and parents (scale); attitude to slaps as minor punishment and
assumed attitude of reference persons and social surroundings as well
as of institutions to such punishments (scale); most important forms of
punishment practiced by parents (scale); slaps and hits received from
other adults; comparison of strictness of punishment on the part of
one´s own family with the assumed punishments in one´s circle of
friends; perceived punishment and violence in one´s circle of friends
on the part of their respective parents; knowledge of friends who are
beaten by their parents; trust authorities with whom one would talk
about violence in families of friends; advice for friends affected by
violence; trust in the police regarding reporting habits of domestic
violence. Breakfast in parental home or in fast-food restaurant;
personal diet experience; eating habits; regularity and frequency of
meals; frequency of warm meals; removing visible fat from meat; average
sleep budget; tiredness on arrival in school; athletic activity; dental
hygiene habits; frequency of changing tooth brush; frequency of stress
load, loneliness and irritability; feeling of anger, senselessness,
fear, guilt and jealousy; self-classification of condition of health;
satisfaction with appearance and one´s body; feeling of over-weight;
frequency of selected physical complaints and illnesses; visits to the
doctor due to selected illnesses; disabilities in every-day tasks due
to one´s state of health; medication due to selected complaints; doctor
or parents as source of supply for medications; blood pressure
complaints; number of days absent in school due to accident or illness;
frequency of visits to the doctor, organized according to specialists;
continual medical treatment due to chronic illness; last visit to the
doctor; length of contact with doctors in minutes; characterization of
situation at last visit to the doctor; trust in doctor and change of
doctor; frequency of aggressive conduct regarding things and persons;
party most likely to represent interest of young people.

Demography: sex; religious denomination; year of birth and month
of birth; height; weight; nationality; length of residence in Federal
Republic; type of school attended; year of school attended.