Youth Media Study 1985

Television habits, use of video, going to the movies and leisure
activities of schoolchildren in south-east Bavaria.

Topics: possession, availability or desire for equipment of
entertainment electronics; possession of books; library use; magazines
in the household; time expended on weekdays or on weekends listening to
music, watching television or video, reading books and magazines,
picture magazines or youth magazines; time of getting up; time of going
to bed; frequency of going to the movies; person accompanying and
reasons for selection of the film; judgement on films; preferred type
of film; conversations about movie films and conversation partner;
interest in making a film oneself; watching television and partner when
watching television; television as favorite leisure activity; criteria
for choice of television station; attitude to television (scale);
restrictions of watching television by parents; prohibition of
television; writing of listener letters; preferred television
broadcasts and television series; use of video; place and partner when
watching video films; source and preferred video films; reasons for
preference of video films; physical and psychological reactions of
respondent to the appearance of video films; exchange of video
cassettes with classmates and friends; conversations and conversation
spartner about video films; preferred radio boradcasts and musical
styles; favorite singer and favorite music group; video games and
frequency of use; preferred video games and place of play; number of
video game cassettes; money spent on public video game machines;
attitude to playing video games and membership in a video fan club;
interest in learning a programming language to develop one´s own video
games; preferred leisure activities.

In special supplementary surveys personality traits were recorded.

At random the respondents were assigned to a sub-sample and further
interviewed by means of tests and self-evaluation procedures:

a. conspicuous behavior and psychosomatic disturbances,

b. self concept,

c. moral verdict, and

d. aggressiveness.