On the Function of Literature in Personality Development of Young People 1981 (Popular Science)

Topics: Extent of leisure time; leisure activities such as sport, further education, diskotheque, movies, circle of friends, political information, theater, literature; proportion of reading in leisure time; preferred literature genre of partner; recommendations on reading from other persons and media; desire for more time for reading; time available for reading yesterday; reading belletristic literature with concurrent use of secondary media such as radio, television or recorder, tape, record; number of books of different literature genres read in the last quarter (scale); reading technical literature; frequency of reading various journals and magazines (scale); interest in books from various literary areas (scale); knowledge of books of popular sociological book series (scale); valuation of popular sociological books (scale); number of books in one's family; personal possession of books of different literature genres (scale); regularity of checking books out of public libraries and genre of books checked out; frequency of trips to book shops and number of books purchased in the last month; preferred place to purchase books; expectations of book illustrations with popular scientific books (scale); expectations of popular scientific literature on social problems (scale); number of books read from the series "nl-konkret" and understandability of the books; evaluation of individual books of the series (scale); desired topics in popular scientific paper-back book series (scale); interest in various books on results of youth research (scale); interest in popular scientific books on historical events or personalities and preferred content presentation; preferred manner of presentation (esthetic, popular scientific) on historical events and personalities (scale); questions on current economic development; answering questions on the economy by electronic or print media and information and courses (scale); evaluation of presentatin of current problems in various art forms (scale); membership in social organizations; occupation of respondent and partner; occupation of father or mother; shift work; evaluation of conditions at work or in training (scale); Supplemental form "Armeerundschau": reasons for reading this magazine, such as e.g. interest in national defense, NVA (scale); evaluation of individual issues and articles of the Armeerundschau (scale); evaluation of graphic structuring of the magazine (scale); stand on personal contribution to national defense.