Literature Interest of Young People 1988

Leisure activities, interest in and occupation with different
literature genres, availability of literature products, expectations
of books and valuations.
Topics:
Participation in and significance of scientific surveys;
necessity of improved selection of literature and books;
necessity of better information about new publications;
frequency of leisure activities (scale);
interest in different literature products (scale);
proportion of time reading as leisure activity;
length of reading selected printed materials yesterday (scale);
reading along with listening to music;
number of books read of different literature genres (scale);
frequency of reading various printed materials (scale);
reading serialized novels in newspapers and magazines;
reading the youth magazine "neues leben";
author and title of last read and preferred belletristic book;
frequency of use of literature information in daily newspapers;
reasons for reading literature information (scale);
interest in different literature genres (scale);
valuation of specified books (scale);
writing short stories;
possession of books of different genres (scale);
libraries and book stores at place of residence and frequency of use;
checking out books from libraries;
selection of the Phonothek and its use;
number of books purchased;
place to purchase books;
agreement of place of work or training with main place of residence;
size of place of work or training;
size of place of residence;
social origins;
physical and mental demands from work;
judgement on work demands and assessment of diversity of activity;
work with computer technology;
time duration of work with computer technology;
willingness to work on modern technology;
work in shift work;
interest in key technology;
extent to which informed about development status of key technology
in work area;
use of sources of information on key technology (scale);
evaluation of presented books (scale);
regularity of reading selected magazines (scale);
evaluation of knowledge on work with and on computers and
usability of the knowledge;
expectations of a book on key technology (scale);
frequency of reading scientific magazines (scale);
interest in popular scientific literature on different topics (scale);
interest in adventure topics in different media forms (scale);
proportion of adventure literature in entire reading time;
favorite author of adventure literature;
reasons for interest in adventure literature and preferred topics (scale);
reading habits; reasons for reading adventure paper-back books (scale);
frequency of reading paper-back books of different series (scale);
collecting paper-back books of different topic areas (scale);
desired characteristics of heros of adventure literature (scale);
valuation of presented adventure books (scale);
number of adventure films seen.
Supplemental form:
last book read;
valuation on the book;
possession of the book;
reasons for reading this book (scale);
influence of book on further reading habits (scale).