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Fundamental social values and norms in 22 countries. Topics: 1. Leisure time: preference for active or relaxing organization of leisure time; preferred leisure partner; membership in selected organizations and clubs; honorary activity in clubs; regularly reading newspapers; daily watching television; attitude to people with diverging convictions; feelings of loneliness; assessment of change in people´s willingness to help; unpopular groups of persons in the neighborhood; self-assessment of condition of health; psychological self-characterization as restless, depressive and happy; general trust in fellow man and trust in younger and older people; control over personal course of life (scale); feeling of happiness; assessment of current contentment with life as well as contentment with life five years ago and in the future by means of scales. 2. Work: job satisfaction; pride in the profession; freedom of decision in the profession; use of additional leisure time; feeling of being exploited by work; general satisfaction with standard of living; expected changes in financial situation in the future; attitude to the achievement principle and co-determination of employees in nominating the business manager of a business; attitude to following instructions of superior; attitude to technical progress. 3. The meaning of life: contemplating the meaning of life and death; belief in good and evil in people; frequency of regret for personal inappropriate behavior; willingness for national defense; values and institutions for which it is worthwhile to risk one´s life; danger of war; self-classification of religiousness; assessment of the ability of the church in moral questions, in questions of family life and the question of the meaning of life; expected significance of religions in the future; belief in God, death, soul, devil, hell, heaven, sin and re-birth; importance of God in one´s own life; search for strength and consolation in faith; prayer; the significance of...