Interval Study Capabilities: Older Cohort 1985-1995, 1st Wave 1985

Development forms and influence factors of development
of mental achievements in childhood and adolescence
(particularly at transfer from lower grade, junior high and high school).
Topics:
Cognitive capabilities:
school achievements in individual subjects;
teacher judgements about specific achievement specialties
and learning characteristics;
test results on concentration ability, attentiveness, verbal agility;
coping with above-average requirements;
personal orientations:
moral orientations;
learning attitude;
learning motivation;
goals in life;
actual school habits;
self-concept;
action determined oneself or by third parties;
cognitive interests;
satisfaction with school requirements and coping with them;
capabilities and skills;
independence;
ability to assert oneself;
self-evaluation of personal strengths and weaknesses;
social-personal relations;
cultural interests and orientations;
leisure behavior;
leisure interests;
use of new information
technologies;
use of mass-media;
use of cultural offerings;
preferred cultural activities;
cultural-esthetic orientation;
cultural possession;
conducting sport;
family development conditions:
sociability;
structure characteristics of family;
child-raising situation and child-raising style of parents;
understanding;
emotional parent-child relationship;
personality of parents;
mental-cultural conditions of family;
model effect of parents;
case history data of child development;
social relations;
collectivity;
school habits;
social effort;
identification;
friendships;
sociogramm;
psycho-nerval prerequisites:
self-confidence.