Attitude to Use of Drugs Among Young People 1986-1989

Use of intoxicants by young people and attitude to drugs.

Topics: contentment with life; judgement on one´s own occupational or
school burdens (scale); judgement on personal condition of health;
profile of characteristics of a person of equal age who lives
healthfully; attitude to one´s own body and health (scale); greatest
threat to health; satisfaction with personal leisure situation; type
and frequency of leisure activities conducted; person to confide in;
feeling of being excluded and friendships (scale); influence of
reference group; self-assessment of attractiveness to the other sex;
frequency of consumption of selected beverages; type and extent of use
of alcohol in the last few working days and on the last few weekends;
use of alcohol alone or in company of others as well as place of use of
alcohol; reason for use of alcohol; judgement on various effects of use
of alcohol (scale); frequency of alcohol intoxication; time of last
alcohol intoxication; age at first smoking or at begining regular
smoking; number of cigarettes smoked daily; self-assessment as heavy
smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker; times of not smoking;
difficulties in breaking the habit; difficulty of not smoking in
selected situations; reasons for not smoking; possible reasons for
smoking in the view of a non-smoker as well as in the view of a smoker;
reasons for not smoking in the view of a smoker; preferred tobacco
product and brand of cigarettes; attitude to jeopardy to health from
smoking; attitude of friends to quitting or to begining smoking;
expected smoking behavior in five years; knowledge about selected
drugs; attitude to trying selected drugs; use of intoxicants in one´s
circle of friends; number of friends who regularly use drugs or are
drunk; attitude to legalization or to prohibition of intoxicants;
personal use of intoxicants and time since last consumption; time of
last use of intoxicants; probability of future use of intoxicants; most
important reasons for the non-use of intoxicants; frequency and type of
intoxicants tried; place of the first use of intoxicants and persons
present; reasons for the first use of intoxicants; type and frequency
of use of intoxicants in the last 30 days; reasons for the termination
of use of intoxicants; assumed reasons for use of intoxicants in the
view of a non-user.

Importance of selected goals in life (scale); importance of a steady
partner, of the significance of recognition by parents and of the
achievement of personal interests; importance of money and social
mobility; perceived boredom in daily life; career orientation; fear of
loneliness; desire for children and a happy family life; fear of
nuclear power plants and of increasing environmental pollution;
attitude to technical progress; pessimistic expectation for one´s own
economic future; expected personal unemployment in the future; faith in
the achievement of one´s own occupational goals; unjust treatment by
one´s own family; perceived independence from drugs; stress burden;
perceived acceptance in social surroundings; comparison of standard of
living of youth today with the standard of living of the young
generation to which one´s parents belonged; personal success; frequency
of selected health complaints; use of medication; personal source of
income and type of income; party preference; housing situation; type
und extent of employment of parents; nationality.

Additionally encoded were: city size; social type; weekday of
interview; time of interview; sex of interviewer and age of interviewer.