Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 1993/1994

Attitudes of young people between the ages of 12 to 25 years on use of drugs:
motives, situative conditions, influence factors.
Topics:
1. general:
contentment with life;
frequency of selected leisure activities;
length of daily use of television, radio and newspaper or reading magazines;
estimated model character of various persons, organizations and media;
self-assessment of health;
attitude to healthful dealing with one's own body (scale);
satisfaction with personal leisure time;
presence one's own person to confide in;
number of good friends and close acquaintances.
2. alcohol:
frequency of consumption of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages;
type and amount of consumption of alcoholic beverages on a weekday and weekend;
places of use of alcohol;
partner in use of alcohol;
estimated social effects of alcohol;
frequency of alcohol intoxication;
age and type of situation at first alcohol intoxication.
3. nicotine:
age at starting smoking;
self-assessment as heavy smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker;
for persons who no longer smoke:
time of quitting smoking;
average use of cigarettes per day;
assessment of the difficulty of giving up smoking;
reasons for not smoking and for smoking (scales);
type of products containing tobacco used;
preferred brand of cigarettes;
places of noticing references to jeopardy to health from smoking;
personal attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking (scale);
assumed attitude of friends to resuming or giving up smoking;
assessment of personal future smoking habits.
4. Illegal drugs:
familiarity and attitude to possibly trying selected illegal and legal drugs;
assessment of number of friends and acquaintances
who take legal and illegal drugs;
drugs already consumed;
type of drugs consumed;
age at use of drugs;
frequency of use of drugs from the first time until the time of interview;
place of first use of drugs and persons involved;
time of last use;
frequency of use of drugs in the last 12 months;
attitudes to use of drugs (scale);
drugs currently consumed;
reasons for breaking off use of drugs;
conduct at first drug offer, reasons for rejection and
influence of friends in rejection of drug offer;
estimated extent to which informed about effects of use of drugs;
interest in the topic "drugs and addiction";
assessment of the role of others of the same age in drug prevention;
frequency of conversations about drugs and addiction;
estimated personal persuasion ability on the topic of drugs;
commitment for foregoing drugs by friends;
familiarity of legal status and expected legal consequences
of public use of hashish and marijuana;
assessment of physical and psychological dangers of hard and soft drugs;
frequency of selected health complaints and
use of medication to eliminate these complaints;
frequency of use of stimulants and tranquilizers.
Only with persons not using any drugs:
assessment of personal desire to try drugs;
assumed reasons for use of drugs by others;
type of drugs already offered;
age at offer;
place and persons involved in offer.
Demography:
age;
sex;
marital status;
school education;
education;
occupation;
income;
primarily material foundation of life;
number of persons in household;
number of persons 12 to 25 years old in household;
school degree, education and occupation of parents;
housing situation;
possession of a telephone;
religious denomination;
nationality;
state;
city size;
possession of drivers license;
vehicle.
Also encoded were:
communicative availability of respondent
(for possible planning and structuring of prevention measures);
day of interview;
age and sex of interviewer;
place of interview;
interviewer number.