Summary information

Study title

Interval Study: Development Factors and Development Forms of Young People in the GDR (1968-1980) IS I - 1980 (12th Wave)

Creator

Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig

Study number / PID

ZA6160, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6160 (DOI)

Data access

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Abstract

Typical forms and courses of development of personality and social habits of young people depending on social factors and conditions. Topics: Satisfaction with occupation learned; sense of well-being in the learning or work collective; pride in occupation; use of various forms of further education (scale); remaining in occupation and company; evaluation of working conditions (scale); agreement between work activity and occupation learned; respect for personal opinion in the company; orientation along instructions given; feeling of responsibility for the achievements of the brigade; assessment of personal health and capability; achievement status in the collective; prestige of occupation; number of previous jobs; evaluation of personal path of education; evaluation of higher school requirements; assessment of the FDJ work in the company; school degree; final grades; certainty of the world-wide victory of socialism; pride in being a citizen of the socialist state; world view; evaluation of the following statements: readiness to take a stand for socialism, solidarity with socialist native country and socialist GDR; viewing imperialism as personal enemy; assessment of the western world as world of freedom; satisfaction with exercise of governmental power in the GDR; desire to become a communist oneself; attending religious events; concurrent marxist and religious views; development of personal socialist class standpoint and social activities; goals in life (scale); desire for children; number of children oneself; age at birth of first child; age at marriage; occupation of spouse; retrospective evaluation of school (scale); frequency of reading regional and national newspapers and magazines; frequency of obtaining information about political happenings and mass-media preferred for this; frequency of watching or listening to special broadcasts on radio and television of the GDR (scale); predominant use of GDR or West German...
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Methodology

Data collection period

1980

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Cluster sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Written survey in group association, further test procedures in individual waves

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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