Summary information

Study title

Interval Study: Development Factors and Development Forms of Young People in the GDR (1968-1980) IS I - 1978 (11th Wave)

Creator

Zentralinstitut für Jugendforschung (ZIJ), Leipzig

Study number / PID

ZA6159, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6159 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Typical forms and courses of development of personality and social conduct of young people depending on social factors and conditions. Topics: Satisfaction with occupation learned; sense of well-being in training or work collective; fulfillment of achievement demands; occupation pride; use of various forms of further education (scale); remaining in occupation and company; evaluation of working conditions (scale); agreement between employment and occupation learned; respect for personal opinion at work; orientation on instructions given; feeling of responsibility for the achievements of the brigade; assessment of personal health and capability; achievement status in collective; reputation of occupation; conviction of the world-wide victory of socialism; interest in political events; pride to be a citizen of the socialist state; world view; solidarity with the working class; agreement of one's own interests with those of the socialist state; readiness to do everything for the protection of socialism; evaluation of the following statements: working class and truth or right are united, readiness to stand up for socialism, socialism is only possible under leadership of the working class, trust in leadership by the SED, exploitation of people by people is a problem of humanity, democracy requires freedom also for communists, democracy requires independence of politics from business interests, taking a stand for the ideas of communism; solidarity with the socialist native country and the socialist GDR; reputation of imperialism as personal enemy; assessment of the western world as world of freedom; stand on national property; satisfaction with exercise of governmental power in the GDR; assessment of suppression and exploitation in imperialist countries; desire to become a communist oneself; evaluation of teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin; evaluation of West German power relationships as just; retrospective evaluation of school...
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Methodology

Data collection period

1978

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster
Cluster sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Written survey in group association, further test procedures in the individual waves

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1996

Terms of data access

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

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