Summary information

Study title

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

Creator

Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig

Study number / PID

ZA6037, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6037 (DOI)

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Abstract

Leisure contents, expectations of current literature, attitude to reading and reading habits, preferred literature, valuations on the publisher "Neues Leben" and the magazine "Temperamente". Topics: Extent of leisure time; leisure activities such as sport, further education, discotheques, movies, circle of friends, political information, television, theater, literature; proportion of reading in leisure time; preferred literature genres of partner; recommendations for 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; current stress from reading technical literature in leisure time; frequency of reading literature series in the last quarter (scale); reading a serialized novel in picture magazines or daily newspapers; continuity of reading journals and magazines; number of issues of "Temperamente" read; following literature criticism in various media (scale); interest in books from various literature areas (scale); reading of works of different literary epochs (scale); valuation of individual book titles (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; frequency of trips to book stores and number of books purchased in the last month; preferred place to purchase books; expectations of book illustrations (scale); point in time, duration of reading and evaluation of last book read; source of this book; motives for reading this book; classification of book in literature genre and evaluation; knowledge about the publisher "Neues Leben"; knowledge about the book series of the publisher (scale); knowledge about the books of various authors of the publisher (scale); evaluation of...
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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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