Young People in the Republic of Poland, in Eastern and Western Germany

Political orientations, moral concepts, situation in life and interests
of young people in Poland and Germany. Topics: Type of school attended
and class level; self-classification between being a child and adult
(scale); desire for agreement with parental life style; age at
conducting process of separation from original family and development
of occupational independence and autonomy as well as in establishing
development levels in planning for the future; sympathy for selected
nationalities; personal contact with persons abroad;
self-classification of knowledge about the Soviet Union, Poland and the
GDR and assessment of the knowledge provided by the school about these
countries; assessment of typical characteristics of Poles; parents
still living; social origins; personal housing situation or living in
parental household; relationship with father and mother; personal
concepts of child-raising in comparison to the parents; interest in
selected topics such as fashion, politics, sport, health, music;
judgement on the prospects for the future or fear of the future;
perceived conflicts between selected social groups; satisfaction with
attending school and most important reasons for satisfaction or
dissatisfaction; favorite subjects; education goal; perceived burden
from school or work (scale); vocationally oriented moral orientations;
satisfaction with school achievements; social and personal disposition;
idols; planning for the future and outline for life; place, partner and
preferred leisure behavior; frequency and type of athletic activities;
watching television and preferred television broadcasts; frequency of
reading daily newspapers; playing a music instrument; use of tobacco;
use of alcohol; experience with narcotics and drugs; use of
tranquilizers; relationship between young people and adults
(youth-centrism, scale); attitude to political participation and social
commitment in selected areas; judgement on parties, organizations and
initiatives as representatives of personal interests; contact with
concerns and needs; stating contact person in selected problem areas;
attitude to foreigners, nationalism and authoritarianism (scales);
judgement on the German-Polish relationship (scale); friends in Poland
or Germany; agreement of one´s own view about Poland or Germany with
the views of aquaintances, friends and family members; sources of
information about Poland; attitude to recently-arrived ethnic Germans
from Eastern Europe (scale); self-classification on a left-right
continuum and classification of father and mother on such a continuum;
clique affiliation or group affiliation; distribution of gender in
one´s circle of friends; self-classification of religiousness; number
of siblings; size of circle of friends; steady partner relation;
willingness to participate in further surveys.