Study title

The Saxonian longitudinal study is a social science longitudinal study. It was begun in 1987 and examines the change in political attitudes of young adults in the new federal states of the former East Germany. Since the 16th wave (2002), the topic of unemployment and health has been intensively studied. Another new focus is on questions of partnership and personality. The present study was conducted in 2022 and represents the 33st wave.1. Political attitudes, life in the GDR: opinion on the unification of GDR and FRG; more dividing vs. more similarities between East Germans and West Germans; estimated number of years until East/West alignment, until East Germans and West Germans have grown together into a real community and until own income is 100% of income in the West; sense of threat from possible (renewed) own unemployment, possible (renewed) unemployment of partner and children, occurrence of personal hardship, increasing cost of living, own social decline, deterioration of health, poverty in old age, consequences of the Corona pandemic, consequences of the war in Ukraine, increasing immigration, expansion of international terrorism, increase in crime, consequences of climate change, increase in Islamist terror in Germany, and from increasing cost of rents; satisfaction in various areas (political system in the Federal Republic of Germany, current economic order, democracy, social policy, pension policy, family policy and labor market policy of the state, alignment of living conditions in the East with those in the West); confidence in the future for the respondent personally, for parents, for own children, for the development in East Germany, for the development in Germany as a whole and for the development of professional plans); satisfaction with the possibilities for political influence, with income, with social development, with one´s own state of health and with the chances of making it in life through achievement; left-right self-ranking; Party...