Youth '92

Life situations, orientations and perspectives for development of
young people in united Germany.
Topics: Most important changes in the Federal Republic and the GDR
since 1989; attitude to unification of the two German nations; visits
in the other part of Germany since border opening; interest in life
in the other part of Germany; preferred leisure habits; motivation to
going to the movies; attitude to selected film genres, musical styles
as well as dances; interest in vegetarian nutrition; use of
cigarettes and alcohol; characteristics of personal clothing style;
self-esteem, irritability and concerns (scale); interest in
technology; main focus areas of this interest in technology;
orientation on group styles; residential status; size of household
and family relation with the members of the household; presence of
further housing opportunities; size of available living space; type
of bed; age, sex as well as financial support of siblings by parents;
length of stay of siblings in parental home; time budget summarized
in hours per week for employment, training and further education as
well as leisure time; time scales after Zimbardo (orientation on the
certain present, hedonist orientation to the present, positive
orientation on the past, negative attitude regarding the past);
orientations in the future after Cavalli (eigen-strukturiert type,
eigen-destrukturiert type, fremd-destrukturiert type); psychological
self-characterization of stand on life; ambition to achieve personal
goals in life and expected ambition in partner through life; moral
orientations after Schwartz and Montada (order and security, power
and wealth, freedom, friendship, tradition, change, postmaterialism,
unity with nature, beauty, detachment; scales); religiousness and
prayer habits; belief in life after death; confidence regarding
development of one's own life and the future of society; time range
of concepts about personal life; willingness to adapt, orientation to
self and self-assertion as orientation patterns for personal life
(scales); interest in politics; party inclination; judgement on
support for youth by the Federal Government and areas for additional
possibilities of support; political alienation (scale); political
participation; age on the first day at school; presence of parents on
the first day at school and gifts received on this occasion; general
judgement on time in elementary school; favorite subjects; children's
games and development of orientations as well as interests (social
girl games, aggressive boy games, classical education, media usage,
cultural activities, technical activities; scales); information on
personal age at selected events such as first sexual experiences,
first employment, leaving parental home and marriage; drammatic
events in one's life; youth-centrism; relationship of young people to
adults (scale); self-classification as young person or adult; desired
speed of growing up; upper limit for adolescence; transmission of
cultural capital (Bordieu): plans and hopes of ambitious parents for
a gifted child, school-centered parental home, common leisure time
and hobbies of parents and children, use of literature and media
selection at home (scale); mutual trust with parents in youth;
frequency of performing selected household activities by respondent
as well as performance of these activities for respondent by his
parents; importance of selected reference persons; exercise of
"irrational" and excessive behaviors; presence of friends of both
sexes; attitude of circle of friends or reference group to excessive
use of alcohol and truancy; belonging to clubs and organizations; age
at first menstruation or onset of breaking of voice; age at onset of
rapid growth; current height and age at achievement of this height;
weight; description of physical development in adolescence in
comparison to school friends; body areas that particularly changed in
these age phases; amount of monthly pocket-money and further
financial sources for livelihood; giving personal income to one's
parents; social origins; unemployment in parental home; type of city;
type of residential community.
Also encoded was:
city size; length of interview; form of address;
age and sex of interviewer.