Summary information

Study title

On the Function of Literature in Personality Development of Young People 1981 (Popular Science)

Creator

Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig

Study number / PID

ZA6038, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6038 (DOI)

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Abstract

Leisure contents, attitude to reading and reading habits, preferred literature, valuations on the publisher "Neues Leben". Topics: Extent of leisure time; leisure activities such as sport, further education, diskotheque, movies, circle of friends, political information, theater, literature; proportion of reading in leisure time; preferred literature genre of partner; recommendations on reading from other persons and media; desire for more time for reading; time available for reading yesterday; reading belletristic literature with concurrent use of secondary media such as radio, television or recorder, tape, record; number of books of different literature genres read in the last quarter (scale); reading technical literature; frequency of reading various journals and magazines (scale); interest in books from various literary areas (scale); knowledge of books of popular sociological book series (scale); valuation of popular sociological books (scale); number of books in one's family; personal possession of books of different literature genres (scale); regularity of checking books out of public libraries and genre of books checked out; frequency of trips to book shops and number of books purchased in the last month; preferred place to purchase books; expectations of book illustrations with popular scientific books (scale); expectations of popular scientific literature on social problems (scale); number of books read from the series "nl-konkret" and understandability of the books; evaluation of individual books of the series (scale); desired topics in popular scientific paper-back book series (scale); interest in various books on results of youth research (scale); interest in popular scientific books on historical events or personalities and preferred content presentation; preferred manner of presentation (esthetic, popular scientific) on historical events and personalities (scale); questions on current economic development;...
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Methodology

Data collection period

1981

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Data collection mode

Written survey

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Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1981

Terms of data access

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

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