Study title

The study deals with individual capacities of coping with experienced requirements of social change. Broadly speaking, this refers to the challenges individuals are facing when macro-contextual conditions of life are changing. Education/vocatioinal training, gainful employment, willingness to work, marital status, way of life (single, in relation/married-cohabiting, in relation/married-not cohabiting), children (age of children), goals in life, satisfaction with life in general and specific areas of life, handling of challenges in life, self-evaluation, changes in work life, easy/hard finding a job, changes in education/vocational training, personal motivation/commitment, self-perception, changes in family life, personal coping strategies with change (family, work, education/vocational training, relationship), reaction to changes in everyday life (challenged: religious belief, role of political parties, fewer guidelines concerning right or wrong, customs/traditions from foreign cultures, political/religious extremism); financial situation, overtime (night/weekend shifts); free choice in type of relation; pursuit of further education (more of it in leisure time), more offers for further education available, increased importance of appearance/fitness, higher level of independence and autonomy in work, precautions for old age, workload eased by technology, easier to live according to own moral concepts, job requires better interpersonal skills, new possibilities due to new media, longer commute to work, leisure activities no longer affordable, greater effort to attain standard of living, more discretion towards other forms of life, learn more for job (languages, technology), prepared to adapt to changes today; personal characteristics: routine important in life, optimism/pessimism, psychological well-being, self-esteem, problem-solving skills, curiousness towards new things, comfort, leisure time and its perception, role of others in life, role of personal...