Young People in Clubs: Careers, Action, Help in Life (DLRG Youth Study)

Young people in clubs: motives and participation in club life.
Knowledge about the DLRG.

Topics: leisure budget on weekdays and weekends; most important
leisure partners on weekdays and weekends; detailed information on
earlier and current memberships in clubs and extent of participation in
club events; social orientation pattern, willingness to adapt, personal
responsibility, self-assertion and orientation in the future (scale);
group affiliation and clique affiliation; person to confide in;
membership of this confidant in a club in which the respondent is
himself; judgement on the strictness of one´s own upbringing; duration
of membership in individual clubs; membership reasons; family members
or friends as club members and their sex; best friends as members in a
club and meeting these friends through the club; functions exercised in
the club; time budget expended for the club or association; most
important advantages and disadvantages of club life; judgement on the
relations between generations in the club; regularity of participation
in club events and selected leisure activities; participation in
delegate meetings and committee meetings at the local, state and
federal level; club size at local level; relationship with local group
of the club and significance of this club for respondent (scale); the
significance of club life for respondent (scale); learning independence
through club membership; attitude to marriage, partnership and sex
rolls (scale as form to be filled out); fidelity in partnership and
contraception as task of the woman; orientation in the future (scale);
independence (scale). Knowledge about the German Life-Saving Society
(DLRG); source of information about the DLRG; knowledge about the
specific work of the DLRG; DLRG group at place of residence of
respondent. Demography: employment; work satisfaction; party
preference; assessment of the effectiveness of forms of political
participation (scale); personal political participation; closeness or
belonging to selected youth groups and cliques; sex; year of birth;
month of birth; school degree or school degree sought; age at leaving
school; vocational training; area of the occupational training;
full-time employment; earlier employment; occupational position;
marital status; existence of a partner; age of partner; personal
children; religious affiliation; living with parents or residential
status; available monthly income; position in sibling sequence; social
origins: school degree of father and mother; occupation of father;
employment of mother; occupation of mother; possession of a telephone.
Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the interview and
their degree of relationship to respondent; intervention by others in
the interview; willingness to cooperate and reliability of respondent;
length of interview; date of interview.