Darmstadt Study (Advanced Schools)

Family and living conditions as well as conduct and attitudes of young people. Besides a survey compositions were evaluated and encoded for content analysis.

Topics: 1. Questionnaire for all respondents: social origin and occupation; occupations of parents; occupational career of parents; number of siblings and position in sibling sequence; one´s own bedroom; local residency; refugee; bombed out; whereabouts or living together with parents; possession of a car; number of living-rooms and one´s own room; house ownership; greatest concerns of parents; desired occupation; consent of parents with desired occupation; participation of parents in parents meetings; membership in a youth group and participation in social evenings; ideas about an ideal youth group; club membership; attitude of parents to youth groups and clubs.

2. The following additional questions were posed to schoolchildren in the 13th grade: favorite subjects; the route to school; conflicts in school; conduct of parents with school difficulties; homework; concept of an ideal teacher; preferred education goals for elementary schoolchildren and schoolchildren at higher levels; grades skipped and repeating a year; type of rewards for good grades; conduct of parents with bad grades; school grades and fairness; satisfaction with personal school achievements; judgement on the job of the class spokesman; duties of the pupils´ and parents´ council; participation of parents in parents meetings; further employment; earning money after school; preferred education style; greatest concerns and difficulties; judgement on the school and concepts of an ideal school; greatest concerns and difficulties of parents; judgement on the child-raising effort of parents; frequency of punishment; pocket-money and use of the money; marriage desire and desire for children; assessment of the future of Germany; leisure activities and friendships; perceived influence of the individual on the structuring of public life.

3. Encoding of compositions written by schoolchildren in the 8th grade for content analysis: the recording for content analysis was oriented on the description given in ZA Study No. 1575.

Demography: age; sex; religious denomination; size of household; place of residence; place of birth; school; class.