Study title

Development forms and influence factors of development of mental achievements in childhood and adolescence (particularly at transfer from lower grade, junior high and high school). Topics: Cognitive capabilities: school achievements in individual subjects; teacher judgements about specific achievement specialties and learning characteristics; test results on concentration ability, attentiveness, verbal agility; coping with above-average requirements; personal orientations: moral orientations; learning attitude; learning motivation; goals in life; actual school habits; self-concept; action determined oneself or by third parties; cognitive interests; satisfaction with school requirements and coping with them; capabilities and skills; independence; ability to assert oneself; self-evaluation of personal strengths and weaknesses; social-personal relations; cultural interests and orientations; leisure behavior; leisure interests; use of new information technologies; use of mass-media; use of cultural offerings; preferred cultural activities; cultural-esthetic orientation; cultural possession; conducting sport; family development conditions: sociability; structure characteristics of family; child-raising situation and child-raising style of parents; understanding; emotional parent-child relationship; personality of parents; mental-cultural conditions of family; model effect of parents; case history data of child development; social relations; collectivity; school habits; social effort; identification; friendships; sociogramm; psycho-nerval prerequisites: self-confidence.