Study title

Recording typical forms and courses of personality development of GDR-youth in the 70's as well as their significant determinants. Topics: employment and work proving its worth (BAB): attitude to chosen occupation; characteristics of activity exercised; job satisfaction; sense of well-being, recognition in the work brigade, sense of responsibility; fulfilling work demands, ability to achieve, attitude to FDJ work at work; retrospective evaluation of occupational training; self-assessment regarding work performance; prestige of the occupation in public, reasons; occupational plans such as remaining in occupation or company, change; number of jobs up to now; assessment of social relations in work collective, work organization, the climate in the company; occupational goals; use of forms of further education and qualification; attitude to the path of employment and training; Political-ideological attitudes and world view (PIE-WAG): certainty of the historical victory of socialism; world view, attitude to religiousness of young people, reconciliation of religious activity and progressive views; interest in political events and philosophical questions; ideological value orientations; identification with the GDR, socialism, communism, protection of the socialist state, the ethical basic values of socialism, the working class; commitment for political activity; condemning the capitalist social system, the imperialist order in the FRG, anticommunism; attitude to military duty in the GDR; image of the enemy; Life satisfaction (ZUF): satisfaction with political, technical, social, personal and other conditions such as political development of the GDR, policies regarding the FRG, housing situation, financial situation, material possessions, partner relations, opportunities for qualification, conditions of structuring leisure time, social support at work, life over-all; Subjective retrospective on measures for education and training as well as education needs...