Summary information

Study title

Attitude to Use of Drugs Among Young People 1986-1989

Creator

Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln
Institut für Jugendforschung, München

Study number / PID

ZA1968, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1968 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Use of intoxicants by young people and attitude to drugs. Topics: contentment with life; judgement on one´s own occupational or school burdens (scale); judgement on personal condition of health; profile of characteristics of a person of equal age who lives healthfully; attitude to one´s own body and health (scale); greatest threat to health; satisfaction with personal leisure situation; type and frequency of leisure activities conducted; person to confide in; feeling of being excluded and friendships (scale); influence of reference group; self-assessment of attractiveness to the other sex; frequency of consumption of selected beverages; type and extent of use of alcohol in the last few working days and on the last few weekends; use of alcohol alone or in company of others as well as place of use of alcohol; reason for use of alcohol; judgement on various effects of use of alcohol (scale); frequency of alcohol intoxication; time of last alcohol intoxication; age at first smoking or at begining regular smoking; number of cigarettes smoked daily; self-assessment as heavy smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker; times of not smoking; difficulties in breaking the habit; difficulty of not smoking in selected situations; reasons for not smoking; possible reasons for smoking in the view of a non-smoker as well as in the view of a smoker; reasons for not smoking in the view of a smoker; preferred tobacco product and brand of cigarettes; attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking; attitude of friends to quitting or to begining smoking; expected smoking behavior in five years; knowledge about selected drugs; attitude to trying selected drugs; use of intoxicants in one´s circle of friends; number of friends who regularly use drugs or are drunk; attitude to legalization or to prohibition of intoxicants; personal use of intoxicants and time since last consumption; time of last use of intoxicants; probability of future use of intoxicants; most important reasons for the...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

1986 - 1990

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1991

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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