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.