Family Constellation 1987/88

Topics: number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; city size and residential status during childhood; one´s own room or person, with whom the room was shared; preferred playmates and places to play as well as information on sex und age of playmates; most important reference person in childhood; frequency of watching television as well as persons present; most important reasons for not watching television; most important reasons to enjoy attending kindertarden or to refuse to attend kindergarten; most important problems in attending elementary school and in the secondary level; favorite subjects at end of time in school; self-classification of school achievements during the last year of school; interest of parents in school development; age at important phases in life and events; age at leaving parental home; reason to leave; current marital status and year of marriage or divorce and year of death of partner; duration of living together before marriage; firm partner and duration of being together with this partner; leisure preferences and leisure partner; current and earlier club memberships; memberships in associations, organizations, parties and trade unions; classification as passive or active member; offices held; self-classification on a top-bottom scale; importance of areas of life and selected occupational characteristics; attitude to employment of women and the duty of the woman in the family and in raising children; significance of family and attitude to marriage; ideal number of children; desire for children; reasons for the desire for children or reasons not to want to have children; age and sex of one´s own children; psychological characterization of each individual child; reasons for a single child; advantage or disadvantage of being a single child; type of problems and concerns with the children; major problem child; social relations; number of friends of respondent in neighborhood, at work and since childhood; sex of best friend; length of this friendship; relatives living in the same household and with whom the closest contact exists; most important person to confide in; assistance; persons who can be called on for favors; ability to establish contacts; frequency of social occasions; frequency of conversation about private things and desire for a person to confide in; psychological self-characterization; information on education and occupational position; self-assessment of social class.

Relative to the parents of the persons interviewed the following questions were posed: year of birth and perhaps year of death of parents; step-parents or foster parents; times and reasons for absence from parental home during childhood; school degree and vocational certificate of parents; employment of mother and of father during childhood; professional position of father during youth; age of respondent at separation of parents; living together with one parent and emotional reaction to separation of parents.