Summary information

Study title

Young People in the Republic of Poland, in Eastern and Western Germany

Creator

Schröder, Helmut (Forschungsgruppe Schulevaluation an der Fakultät Erziehungswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Dresden )

Study number / PID

ZA2857, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2857 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Political orientations, moral concepts, situation in life and interests of young people in Poland and Germany. Topics: Type of school attended and class level; self-classification between being a child and adult (scale); desire for agreement with parental life style; age at conducting process of separation from original family and development of occupational independence and autonomy as well as in establishing development levels in planning for the future; sympathy for selected nationalities; personal contact with persons abroad; self-classification of knowledge about the Soviet Union, Poland and the GDR and assessment of the knowledge provided by the school about these countries; assessment of typical characteristics of Poles; parents still living; social origins; personal housing situation or living in parental household; relationship with father and mother; personal concepts of child-raising in comparison to the parents; interest in selected topics such as fashion, politics, sport, health, music; judgement on the prospects for the future or fear of the future; perceived conflicts between selected social groups; satisfaction with attending school and most important reasons for satisfaction or dissatisfaction; favorite subjects; education goal; perceived burden from school or work (scale); vocationally oriented moral orientations; satisfaction with school achievements; social and personal disposition; idols; planning for the future and outline for life; place, partner and preferred leisure behavior; frequency and type of athletic activities; watching television and preferred television broadcasts; frequency of reading daily newspapers; playing a music instrument; use of tobacco; use of alcohol; experience with narcotics and drugs; use of tranquilizers; relationship between young people and adults (youth-centrism, scale); attitude to political participation and social commitment in selected areas; judgement on parties, organizations and initiatives as...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1990 - 02/1991

Country

Germany, Poland

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Quota 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

1996

Terms of data access

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

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