Students at Hessian Colleges on Questions of Politics

Political participation and attitudes of Hessian students. Topics: type
and content of studies; degree sought; number of semesters; activity
before start of studies; most important reasons for current studies;
manner of financing studies; attitude to support for college studies
from public funds for selected fringe groups; extent of available
financial funds and proportion of student aid; rent costs; housing
situation; satisfaction with housing; satisfaction with studies; major
reasons for satisfaction or dissatisfaction; current personal burden;
reasons for thoughts of interrupting course of study; the role of the
sciences (scale); personal college political involvement; most
sympathetic and most unsympathetic college group; participation in
actions on university reform; frequency of contact with selected groups
of persons within and outside of the college; assessment of personal
occupation and job market chances after conclusion of course of
studies; expectations one´s own professional position in the year 2000;
demands and ideal concepts regarding future professional life; time
budget for studies, work and political activities; proportion of
remaining leisure time; daily and weekly newspapers regularly read;
importance of selected leisure activities; preference of values;
interest in political events, university policy questions and
developments as well as European policies; political participation;
most important reasons for political non-involvement; reasons for
sooner positive or negative expectation of further political and social
development; self-assessment on a left-right continuum in comparison to
the majority as well as one´s fellow students; understanding of left
and right; degree of agreement of one´s own political stand with
various political fundamental philosophies; attitude to political
questions and agreement with selected political goals (scale);
designation of nations and ethnic groups for which one has particular
sympathy or antipathy; perceived threats from political developments
and changes of the environment; dissatisfaction with politics;
referendums, citizen participation, party reform or increased
presidential government as preferred solution for dealing with current
political problems; attitude to selected social-political opinions
(scale); attitude to a political leadership elite; attitude to selected
aspects of the democratically constituted political system (scale);
reasons for sympathy with new parties; attitude to selected positions
on questions of internal security (scale); sympathy scale for selected
political groups, fringe groups and minorities (scale); attitude to
Germany as immigration country (scale); psychological
self-characterization; nationality; single-parent; social origins.