Summary information

Study title

Changes in Motivation Structure of Young People and Young Adults

Creator

SINUS-Institut, Heidelberg/München

Study number / PID

ZA1381, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1381 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Social and political attitudes of young people. Topics: Adequate leisure time; most important leisure partner and most important leisure activities; lack of leisure facilities in the city; behavior with money (scale); personal financial security for the future; importance of financial security in selected areas of life; general prospects for the future; job worries; work in occupation in which trained; judgement on change due to change of occupation; frequency and length of personal unemployment; registration with employment office; most important aspects in occupation; work satisfaction; work orientation; unemployment among relatives; relationship to parents; characterization of an ideal wife, an ideal husband and generally more important characteristics; problems between young people and adults and relationship with parents (scales); attitude to marriage and partnership (scale); communication partner in problem situations; satisfaction with the political system in the Federal Republic; desired changes in the next ten years; most important political and social problems; political attitudes; opportunities to influence politics; alternative ways of life practiced and personal understanding of alternative ways of life; belonging to selected groups and organizations of alternative and conventional character; rank sequence of parties; satisfaction with school system and education system; experiences in school and training (scale); perceived achievement pressure; Demography: age; sex; number of children; ages of children (classified); age and number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; school education; school education of father or mother; occupation; occupational position; occupational position of father or mother; employment; company size; household income; money freely available monthly (classified); size of household; living with parents; housing situation; interest in politics.

Topics

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

07/1982 - 08/1982

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1985

Terms of data access

B - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching, if the results won't be published. If any publications or any further work on the results is planned, permission must be obtained by the Data Archive.

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