Study title

Coping with development demands of adolescence, risk situations and risk behavior of young people in an Eastern German region. Topics: Goals in life (scale); moral orientations (scale); proving oneself in vocational training and high school; problems in transfer into vocational training and reasons for termination (scale); problems with transfer into current school instruction (scale); climate in class; participation in achievement courses; type, duration and direction of instruction; participation in supplementary instruction; evaluation of instruction (scale); motives for choice of occupation; satisfaction with selected areas of life (scale); family living conditions and relationship with parents; employment of parents; changes of situations in life experienced in the past year; reasons for migration (scale); bond to place of residence (scale); places of residence of family members; left-right classification; assessment of personal future chances; preferred conversation partner with problems (scale); national identity (scale); political attitude to socialism, national security, foreigners, fascism; personal psychological burden; deviant behavior (scale); support by persons in search for work (scale); feeling of threat (scale); frequency of trips to leisure facilities and leisure events (scale); comparison of leisure offering and expectations; leisure partner (scale); extent of media usage; membership and activity in leisure groups (scale); attitude to various groups of young people (scale); contact with sects; membership in youth organization; use of legal and illegal drugs (scale); condition of health and use of medications; partnership; attitudes to love and sexual conduct; desire for children; measures for pregnancy contraception; extent to which informed about AIDS; net income of household; current housing conditions.