Schoolchildren Interval Study IS II (Younger Cohort) 1979-1985, 1st Wave 1979/80

Typical forms and courses of personality development and social behavior
as well as occupational training and work habits of young people and
young adults depending on social factors and social conditions.
Topics:
General personal orientations:
introversion and extroversion;
general contentment with life;
satisfaction with certain areas of life (scale);
life planning and goals in life;
life style orientation and private or occupational preferences;
social responsibility such as self-respect, community spirit,
striving for justness, partner fidelity, readiness for action;
personal models;
religiousness.
Politics and society:
political interest;
political attitudes such as relationship to Marxism-Leninism,
identification with communists,
evaluation of future capability of the socialist social system,
relationship to the socialist state,
relationship to the GDR and the socialist social system,
relationship to the FRG and the capitalist social system,
relationship to the class enemy,
relationship to the enemies of the socialist order;
world view;
attitude to religion;
participation in religious events;
membership and participation in FDJ;
individual significance of social-political work;
social-political activities;
political opinions of parents;
influence of parental opinion on personal political opinions;
political information;
connection between use of FRG or GDR television and FRG or GDR radio and
political orientations;
knowledge about the statute books of the GDR;
participation in the Jugendweihe {ceremony of adulthood};
wearing western symbols.
Leisure time and culture:
leisure behavior;
leisure interests;
leisure activities such as belonging to and participation in
organized and non-organized leisure groups, cultural and athletic activities;
furnishing with and possession of leisure consumer goods;
media usage and media habits with radio, TV and daily newspapers;
amount of pocket-money;
monthly expenditures for selected goods, leisure activities and services;
monthly time budget for selected leisure activities and leisure activities.
School:
Learning motivation;
teacher-schoolchild relationship;
sense of well-being in the class;
participation in the Academy for Schoolchildren;
achievement development in selected school subjects.
Occupational training:
conduct in choice of occupation
regarding desired occupation and restrictions or consultation;
retrospective evaluation of selected path of education or
selected vocational training;
influence of parental opinion on decision for choice of occupation;
occupation interest;
attitude to occupation and solidarity with occupation;
plans to remain in occupation;
training and learning motivation;
evaluation of theoretical or practical training conditions;
achievement habits in vocational training;
evaluation of theoretical or practical achievement demands;
assessment of coping with demands and personal achievement status.
Employment:
work habits;
work attitude;
work motivation;
models for work habits.
Family of origin:
family size;
number of siblings;
position in sibling sequence;
relation to parents:
general relationship to parents, advice from parents with concerns and problems,
difference of opinions with habits in various areas of life;
parents relation to siblings.
Partnership and sexuality:
firm partner relation;
sexual conduct:
age at start of cohabitation, frequency of ejaculation,
frequency of sexual intercourse, frequency of orgasm.
Cognitive capabilities:
individual courses of development of mental-intellectual capability;
micro-social conditions of development and
support of mental-intellectual capability such as
activities outside of instruction;
participation in school competitions and
achievement comparisons outside of school;
expression of individual interests
regarding mental-cultural activities and
their influence on development of mental-intellectual capability;
connection between school achievement, school degree sought,
occupation orientation and development level of mental-intellectual capability.
Physical development and health:
physical growth;
physical maturity;
eating habits;
drinking habits;
participation in school or company group meals;
habits regarding use of semi-luxury foods harmful to health,
such as tobacco and alcohol.
Socio-demographic characteristics:
social origins:
social affiliation, social status and occupational activity of parents;
attending a day nursery or week nursery or kindergarten or school nursery;
school degree;
form of instruction at time of survey;
direction of occupational instruction;
personal social status.