Young People and Young Adults in Germany 1995

The situation of young people in East and West Germany and attitudes to
questions relevant to young people and political questions. Topics:
Most important problems of the country and most important personal
problem; visit to the other part of Germany after the border opening
and trip abroad in 1994; earlier trips abroad; interest in politics;
sympathy scale for the parties; most able party regarding securing the
future; satisfaction with the social system and sense of well-being in
Germany; judgement on one´s own economic situation and expected further
development; father or mother as responsible person in raising
children; equal rights for men and women; attitude to solving conflict
through force; attitude to socialism; provision for old age by
individuals or the government; national pride; attitude to admission of
applicants for political asylum; understanding for excesses against
applicants for political asylum or shame due to this; general
contentment with life; optimism in the future; mobility readiness for
occupational reasons; satisfaction with housing; willingness of parents
or other persons to help with serious problems; reasons for the
justification of violence; satisfaction with public offerings at
institutions and services for young people; interest in selected
leisure activities (scale); most important reasons for restrictions in
the area of leisure opportunities; membership in a youth organization;
regular participation in events of the club; clique affiliation;
foreigners in one´s circle of friends; assessment of the AIDS danger
and of the threat from drugs; friends in a youth sect; conduct given a
hypothetical attack on foreigners by young people; work satisfaction;
perceived jeopardy to job; living with one´s parents; one´s own room;
assessment of the economic situation of parental home; perceived
jeopardy to job of father and mother; age at leaving parental home;
current residential status; number of siblings; number of children;
desired number of children; socialization authority in childhood;
persons responsible for care during one´s own time in school; social
origins; communion or confirmation; religious denomination;
religiousness and belief in God. The following questions were posed in
Eastern Germany: judgement on the decision of the citizens of the GDR
in the first free election in March 1990; expectations fulfilled
regarding unification of the two German states; judgement on leisure
opportunities after the turning point; comparison of conditions before
the turning point with the current situation regarding social security,
self-development, relationships to others, demands on one´s occupation,
realization of occupational wishes, demands on school, environmental
protection and freedom of speech; participation in the Jugendweihe {GDR
ceremony of becoming an adult}.