Summary information

Study title

Political Attitudes and Conduct of Young People 1985

Creator

Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig

Study number / PID

ZA6082, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6082 (DOI)

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Abstract

Political attitudes, valuations and social activities, stand on securing peace and personal preparedness to defend the GDR, participation in FDJ work. Topics: Valuations on the connection of socialism and well-being of people, socialism and peace, on the world-wide victory of socialism, on the inevitibility of transfer from capitalism to socialism; attitude to the jeopardy to peace from imperialism; solidarity with the GDR and Soviet Union; reasons for solidarity with the GDR or Soviet Union (scale); evaluation of the development of the international balance of power; valuation of the military-strategic balance of power; opportunity of a personal contribution to the securing of peace; certainty of the preventability of a nuclear war by the socialist countries and peace forces; assessment of the aggressive character of imperialism; attitude to military service; willingness to defend the GDR; evaluation of the policies of the FRG regarding the GDR; peace-endangering consequences of stationing of USA missiles on the soil of the FRG; readiness of FRG soldiers to shoot; acceptance of representation of the GDR by the FRG government; representing revanchist goals by the FRG government; evaluation of the possibility of a German-German unification; discussion ability to explanation political questions and facts (scale); valuation of social political measures in the GDR of the last few years (scale); interest in the life and struggle of Ernst Thaelmann; knowledge of literature and films about this (scale); knowledge about the tasks of the Ernst Thaelmann contingent of the FDJ and sources of information used (scale); knowledge about the battle program of the FDJ group; personal task in the peace contingent of the FDJ and accounting; personal task in the "Ernst Thaelmann contingent"; reasons against acceptance of a personal task; participation in the FDJ study year; number of FDJ study years; evaluation of the FDJ apprentice year (scale);...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/1985

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Data collection mode

Written survey

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Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1985

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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