Youth '94

Ideas of young people on politics, society, government, nation and
democracy. Attitudes to nationalism and foreigners. Media usage.

Topics: preferred decade in which to grow up since the 50s; desire for
life in a country other than Germany and country preferred for this;
selection of an ideal weekend city from a list presented;
characterization of negatives of German cities; classification of the
ideal or desired way of life between globetrotter and manager; ideal
leisure activity on a Friday evening; fear of the future (scale);
desired life expectancy; feelings of hate; party preference of parents;
description of the upbringing style of parents; most important
reference person or upbringing authority; personal desire for children;
reason for a possible rejection of desire for children; significance of
work; monthly income sought at the age of 35 years; ideas of an ideal
monthly income for a four-person family; primary source of income and
monthly income available; forms of use or investment of a small
inheritance; brand orientation with selected products; attitude to
movie and television advertising; frequency of reading books; preferred
book author; preference for reading books, magazines or comics;
greatest Rock or Pop singer of all times; preferred film; attitude to
German films; use of video per week; judgement on the extent of
violence and sex broadcasts on television; perceived aversion or
tension from scenes of violence; attitude to more German series on
television, more German films in the movies and increased German music
on the radio; daily watching television; watching news on television
and frequency of reading daily newspapers; optimistic future prospects;
expected future development of society and technology; judgement on the
sensibility of demonstrations; attitude to stickers, buttons and
posters with political content; attitude to the federal chancellor;
trust in selected organizations; party preference; general attitude to
membership in a political party and ideas about one´s own candidacy for
a political office; attitude to a social year for all young people;
attitude to personal participation in a mission of the Federal German
Armed Forces in military actions, in peace actions of the UN and in
missions in time of catastrophe; attitude to men in Uniform; personal
election participation or reasons for non-participation in the
election; interest in politics; general attitude to politics,
politicians and the parties (scale); fed up with politics; attitude to
state; best German post-war chancellor; national pride and achievements
of which one can be proud as a German; knowledge of the date of the
opening of the wall and significance of this day for the respondent;
knowledge of the date of the national holiday for German unity;
significance of democracy; attitude to defense of the social system of
the country; personal political actions to defend democracy in Germany;
comparison of the current political condition of the country with that
of before unification of Germany; naming the perceived improvements or
deteriorations of the condition; association with the words East
Germans and West Germans; desired assimilation of the East Germans to
West German customs; mutual learning about one another by the West
Germans and East Germans; friends in the other part of Germany;
associations with the term fatherland; national pride; nations whose
citizens can be particularly proud of their country; characterization
of Germany and typical German characteristics; naming of great German
personalities; attitude to the federal flag and the term nation;
attitude to singing the National Anthem in school each morning;
attitude to preference for Germans over foreigners in house-hunting as
well as in allocating admissions to university and trainee positions;
assumed superiority of the Germans compared to other peoples and
specification of the peoples to whom one feels superior; hostility to
foreigners; term used for people of black skin color and for
homosexuals; perception of applicants for political asylum as economic
refugees, foreigners or politically persecuted; groups, about which one
tells jokes; attitude to nationalist sayings; attitude to a stricter
penal system as well as the death penalty; attitude to reduction in
foreign aid; social distance from foreigners, with the example of a
Vietnamese; personal contacts with foreigners; attitude to Africans and
assumed attitude of parents to a friendship with an African; attitude
to a Jew as Federal President and assessment of Hitler as statesman;
judgement on school education about Hitler; personal contacts with
Nazis and Neonazis; attitude to the Hitler salute; secret desire to
paint swastikas; attitude to discussion about the Third Reich (scale);
political conduct given a hypothetical participation of Republicans in
the Federal Government; local ties or identification with the region,
state, the western or eastern part or feeling as a German, European or
citizen of the world; association with the term Europe; importance of
areas of life; hedonism or career as preferred attitude to life; most
important successes in life so far; most important things causing fear
in personal and social area; particularly desired personal
characteristics; associations with the word emptiness; most important
social values for living well together in society; attitude to the
demand for more discipline for young people; understanding for deviant
behavior and personal deviant behavior; attitude to neighbors who call
the police at disturbance of the peace; significance of loyalty and
trust; highly valued personalities in politics and entertainment;
sympathy with selected youth groups and youth groupings; conduct
regarding drug dealers and personal use of drugs; age at starting to
use soft drugs; perceived menace from violence; carrying a weapon and
designation of the type of weapon; belief in God; meaning of Christ;
living with one´s parents or in a group sharing a residence; growing up
with one´s parents.