Young People and Health 1973

Attitudes to health, healthful way of life and health habits,
knowledge about health protection, sport and leisure activities.
Supplemental form:
knowledge about maintenance of industrial health and safety standards.
Topics:
Moral orientations (scale);
future concepts;
concepts of health-conscious conduct;
institutions supporting health in school, college, company (scale);
sanitary conditions in residence;
bathing and showering habits;
frequency of going to the sauna;
weight;
desired weight;
classification in real or optimum weight group;
weight-conscious conduct and reasons for this (scale);
height;
participation in community meals
(school meals, company kitchen, student cafeteria);
evaluation of community meals (scale);
assessment of personal manner of nutrition;
nutrition according to dietetic knowledge;
comparison of calorie content of foods (scale);
interest in information on healthful way of life;
object of interest in information;
treatment of questions of healthful way of life
in one's family or the FDJ group;
sources of information on habits promoting health up to now and desired;
knowledge about the "Hygiene Museum" in Dresden;
associations with the term "Hygiene Museum";
time expended weekly for different forms of athletic activity (scale);
frequency of athletic activity during the week;
preferred type of sport (scale);
athletic grades in school;
obtaining the sports certificate and medals received in competetions;
result sought in athletic activity;
reasons for sport and bodily exercise (scale);
evaluation of consequences of conducting sport
regarding health-maintenence effects (scale);
sweating while performing sport;
recuperation value in leisure activities (scale);
practice of leisure activity with maximum recuperation value and
time expended for this;
recuperation effect of different times off work (scale);
smoking;
reasons for not smoking (scale);
valuation of smoking regarding health effects;
personal model;
smoking habits of personal model;
assessment of alcohol use;
frequency of use of alcohol and reasons for this;
evaluation of unhealthful character of alcohol;
use of stimulants in one's circle of friends;
personal use of stimulants;
type of intoxicant used;
thoughts of suicide;
frequency of use of pills (scale);
how to obtain pills;
evaluation of health consequences of regular use of medication;
combined use of sleeping pills or tranquilizers and alcohol;
average duration of sleep and evaluation of extent;
sleep habits;
recuperation effect of sleep;
attitudes to health and healthful way of life, causes of illness (scale);
ability to influence health and illness;
evaluation of personal condition of health;
complaints occurring (scale);
serious illnesses and chronic illness;
frequency of missing work due to illness;
knowledge of prevention of heart and circulation diseases and diabetes;
pride in GDR citizenship;
solidarity with the Soviet Union;
attitude to the world-wide victory of socialism;
attitude to building of socialism in the GDR under the leadership of the SED;
evaluation of the FDJ as representation of the interests of young people;
health as characteristic of the socialist personality;
health as social duty in socialism;
member of the FDJ;
attitude to membership in the SED;
Supplemental form "maintenance of industrial health and safety standards":
function in maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
personal work accidents;
knowledge about maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
length of occupation at the same place of work;
sense of well-being in collective;
relationship with leader;
extent of use of alcohol during working hours;
significance of the term
"maintenance of industrial health and safety standards";
knowledge about the principles of health and
maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
attitude to observance of rules
on maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
reasons for conducting training
on maintenance of industrial health and safety standards in the collective;
supervision of observance of the regulations
on maintenance of industrial health and safety standards;
evaluation of extent of company instruction
on work and health protection;
maintenance of industrial health and safety standards as topic of company media.