Japan-German Study on Cultural Values

Religiousness and attitude to death. Social-political attitudes of
students at universities in Cologne and Tokio.

Topics: 1. Religiousness: frequency of church attendance; frequency of
prayer, reading the Bible; self-classification of religiousness;
possession of lucky charms; belief in fortune tellers; importance of
religious feelings; frequency of contemplation about religion;
religious feelings at experience of nature; nature with a soul; all
regions have the same message; belief as expression of weakness; no
happiness without belief.

2. Death: ideas about life after death (scale); when death was
understood for the first time; concepts of death in childhood (scale);
what has moulded the relationship to death (scale); frequency of
contemplation about death; depressing ideas about death (scale).

3. Voluntary end to life: ideals or persons as reasons to voluntarily
sacrifice one´s life; reasons for suicide (scale); hypothetical conduct
in war and chaos.

4. Politics and society: judgement on selected social-political
problems; fundamental philosophy on society; self-classification on a
left-right continuum. 5. Socio-demography: citizenship; religious
affiliation; subject; number of semesters.