The Search for Meaning - the New Goals in Life

Contentment with life, goals in life, religious belief and search for
meaning.

Topics: general contentment with life; satisfaction and importance of
areas of life; thinking about the meaning of life; able to experience
the meaning of life; personal meaningful experiences; assumed
sex-specific differences in thinking about the meaning of life; most
important determining factors of human life; feeling of political
effectiveness; attitude to the commandment of charity; belief in a
positive further development of humanity and its expected development
in the immediate future; belief in God; concepts of the care of God;
desire for belief in God; changes in belief in the course of life;
frequency of prayer; personal experience of God, belief in miracles and
personal experiences with miracles; belief in a life after death,
contacts between the dead and the living, the Last Judgement and the
existence of the devil; religiousness and ties to church; personal
turning to and contacts with other religious communities, world view
groups or encounter groups; ability of one´s own denomination to solve
current world-wide problems; judgement on the efforts of the
denomination to solve problems; qualification of one´s own denomination
to provide individual meaning; interest in various religious movements,
religions and sects; soul and spirit as origin of all illnesses
(voluntarism); influence of personal will on health and personal
experiences; assumed future recollection of post-material values in the
Federal Republic; desired influence of the Christian churches on public
life in the Federal Republic; political interest; judgement on the job
of politicians as an effort for the public good or for personal
interests; judgement on possible contribution to solution of world-wide
problems by politics, religion and the church, women in leading
positions, one´s own initiative as well as a religious and positive
attitude to life; knowledge of the impending visit of the Pope in the
Federal Republic and attitude to this trip; attitude to papal answers
to current questions of time; attitude to supernatural and inexplicable
events; honorary activities; care-giving; memberships and offices; time
of last use of a gambling machine and average weekly duration; date of
birth; union membership; works council in the company and personal
works council membership; self-assessment of social class; possession
of a telephone.