Factors and Forms of Development of Young People in the GDR (1968 - 1980) IS 1 - 1977 10th Wave - Cross-Section)

Recording typical forms and courses of personality development of GDR-youth
in the 70's as well as their significant determinants.
Topics:
employment and work proving its worth (BAB):
attitude to chosen occupation;
job satisfaction;
sense of well-being, recognition in work brigade, sense of responsibility;
fulfillment of work demands, ability to achieve;
retrospective evaluation of occupational training;
characteristics of activity exercised;
self-assessment regarding work achievements;
assessment of leader;
use of forms of further education and qualification;
assessment of social relations in work collective, work organization,
climate in the company;
subjective factors for job satisfaction;
pride in occupation;
occupational plans - remaining in occupation and company, change;
number of jobs up to now;
Satisfaction with life (ZUF):
satisfaction with political, technical, social, personal and other areas
such as political development of the GDR, policies regarding the FRG,
housing situation, financial situation, material possessions,
partner relations, possiblities for qualification,
conditions of structuring leisure time, social support at work, life over-all;
Subjective retrospective on measures for education and child-raising
as well as education needs (BIB):
assessment of the effectiveness of measures for education and child-raising
at the occupational, technical school or EOS;
Mass communication (MKM):
political information practices;
preferred mass medium;
frequency of use of printed matter, radio and TV broadcasts,
differentiating content;
selection of radio and TV station;
justifying reception of stations in the West;
frequency of trips to the movies and dance events;
reading belletristic books;
preferred structuring of leisure time on the weekend;
Political-ideological attitudes and world view (PIE-WAG):
certainty of the historical victory of socialism;
world view, attitude to religiousness of young people,
interest in political events and philosophical questions;
ideological value orientations such as identification with the GDR,
socialism, communism, protection of the socialist state,
ethical values of socialism, the working class;
commitment to political activity;
condemning the capitalist social system, the imperialist order in the FRG,
anticommunism;
attitude to military duty in the GDR, image of the enemy;
Social activity (GA):
participation and interest in various forms of social-political life;
Group conduct (GGV):
affiliation, structure of circle of friends;
friends of same and other sex;
relations to FDJ collective;
assessment of the political effectiveness of one's FDJ group;
Partner conduct and marriage problems (SEV-EHE):
desire for children, one's own children;
current partnership, commitment, age, activity of partner;
attitudes to love, sexuality, pre-marital sex,
abstaining from sex given the risk unwanted pregnancy;
age of first intimate partner;
number of partners in sexual intercourse up to now;
attitude to and use of contraceptives;
Family origin and family influence (ELT):
relation with parents;
recognition of mother and father as model for conduct;
opinions and counseling ability of parents regarding structuring leisure time,
clothing, music, dance, sexuality, work morale, child-raising,
political-philosophical decisions, FDJ work;
share of housework realized;
Health practices (GES):
condition of health;
complaints;
times of work absence;
frequency of conducting sports, motivation;
smoking habits;
Demographic data and living conditions (DAL):
marital status;
school conclusion, final examination grade;
one's own residence, application for residence, housing conditions;
employment;
area of activity;
income;
military service;
FDJ membership, pride in this;
Goals in life and life planning (LEZ):
attitude to long-term life planning;
view of the future;
goals in life such as willingness to fulfill social duty,
experience and pleasure in structuring material life, future work,
relations with collective, acquisition of material things,
mental-cultural structuring of life, goals of self-realization,
good work as ethical principle, effort for other people,
sincerity in conducting one's life, the will for self-education,
striving for justice, striving for education, single-mindedness,
political-philosophical orientations.