On the Function of Literature in Personality Development of Young People 1981 (Popular Science)

Leisure contents, attitude to reading and reading habits,
preferred literature, valuations on the publisher "Neues Leben".
Topics:
Extent of leisure time;
leisure activities such as sport, further education, diskotheque, movies,
circle of friends, political information, theater, literature;
proportion of reading in leisure time;
preferred literature genre of partner;
recommendations on reading from other persons and media;
desire for more time for reading;
time available for reading yesterday;
reading belletristic literature with concurrent use of secondary media such as
radio, television or recorder, tape, record;
number of books of different literature genres read in the last quarter (scale);
reading technical literature;
frequency of reading various journals and magazines (scale);
interest in books from various literary areas (scale);
knowledge of books of popular sociological book series (scale);
valuation of popular sociological books (scale);
number of books in one's family;
personal possession of books of different literature genres (scale);
regularity of checking books out of public libraries and
genre of books checked out;
frequency of trips to book shops and
number of books purchased in the last month;
preferred place to purchase books;
expectations of book illustrations with popular scientific books (scale);
expectations of popular scientific literature on social problems (scale);
number of books read from the series "nl-konkret" and
understandability of the books;
evaluation of individual books of the series (scale);
desired topics in popular scientific paper-back book series (scale);
interest in various books on results of youth research (scale);
interest in popular scientific books on historical events or personalities and
preferred content presentation;
preferred manner of presentation (esthetic, popular scientific)
on historical events and personalities (scale);
questions on current economic development;
answering questions on the economy
by electronic or print media and information and courses (scale);
evaluation of presentatin of current problems in various art forms (scale);
membership in social organizations;
occupation of respondent and partner;
occupation of father or mother;
shift work;
evaluation of conditions at work or in training (scale);
Supplemental form "Armeerundschau":
reasons for reading this magazine, such as e.g.
interest in national defense, NVA (scale);
evaluation of individual issues and articles of the Armeerundschau (scale);
evaluation of graphic structuring of the magazine (scale);
stand on personal contribution to national defense.