Study title

The Saxonian longitudinal study is a social science longitudinal study. It was begun in 1987 and examines the change in political attitudes of young adults in the new federal states of the former East Germany. Since the 16th wave (2002), the topic of unemployment and health has been intensively studied. Another new focus is on questions of partnership and personality. The present study was conducted in 2021 and represents the 32st wave.1. Political attitudes, life in the GDR: opinion on the unification of GDR and FRG; more dividing vs. more similarities between East Germans and West Germans; estimated number of years until East/West alignment, until East Germans and West Germans have grown together into a real community and until one´s income is 100% of that in the West; changes in East Germany since reunification in the following areas: Social security, protection against crime, relationship between people, equal rights for women, respect for human dignity, school education, support for the family, care for children, social justice, morality of ruling politicians, personal freedoms, democratic participation, health care/medical care, opportunities for self-development; feeling threatened by possible (renewed) own unemployment or (renewed) unemployment of partner and children, occurrence of personal hardship, increasing cost of living, own social decline, deterioration of health, poverty in old age, consequences of the Corona pandemic, increasing immigration of foreigners, expansion of international terrorism, military actions of the USA, spread of left-wing radicalism, increase in crime, spread of right-wing radicalism, military actions by Russia, consequences of climate change, increase in Islamic terror in Germany, increase in aggressiveness and violence, increase in egoism, increase in mobbing, increase in pressure to perform, increase in drugs, increase in anger and hatred between people, brutalisation of emotions, outbreak of a new world war, increasing...