Study title

Attitudes to socialism, military questions and organizations, personal defense preparedness and pre-military training completed, effectiveness of the Gesellschaft fuer Sport und Technik {society for sport and technology} (GST). Supplementary survey of female members of the GST on defense preparedness of women. Topics: Goals in life such as high achievements, travels, making an effort for socialism and peace, having money, leading a pleasant life and founding a family; attitude to the victory of socialism; solidarity with the GDR; attitude to the Soviet Union and its army, the Marxist-Leninist world view; evaluation of the connection of imperialism and war or socialism and peace; constructing socialist society in the GDR; significance of the Geneva negotiations about nuclear and space weapons; membership in mass organizations, SED; possibility of preventing a war through peace forces; evaluation of aggressiveness of imperialist states (scale), evaluation of the policies of the FRG government; assessment of the character of the Federal German Armed Forces and of the readiness of soldiers of the Federal German Armed Forces to shoot; assessment of the balance of power between imperialism and socialism; willingness to defend the GDR and reasons for or against this (scale); attitude to military service; interest in books on political and military topics (scale); evaluation of individual book titles (scale); preferred genre for books about military personalities; knowledge of terms of foreign policy: peaceful co-existence, star wars; knowledge of political personalities; interest in politics; frequency of use of GDR and FRG media for political information and preferred position; frequency of reading daily newspapers for political information; participation in social activities in FDJ, MMM and innovator movement, the GST, peace events (scale); satisfaction with activity in GST (scale); functions exercised in GST; presence of relatives or...