THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT SOCIALIZATION EFFECTS ON STUDENTS IN EAST-GERMANY AND WEST-GERMANY

We tried to elaborate the differences of socialisation between student s in West- and East-germany (former GDR). The results: Postmaterialist ic value-orientations dominate among students in West-germany, whereas in East-germany a synthesis of materialistic and idealist value exist s. No fundamental differences appeared in the personality components. In east-germany the control-assurance resulted in paradox effects, wit h both a high internal control-assurance and more powerlessness. The r elevant themes of future-orientations have been engraved on the East-g ermans more frequently with anxiety and pessimism, on the West-germans with more desire for self-realisation. The rate of unemployment in th e future has been overestimated, more in the East than in the West. Th ere are significant differences of the habitus effects between specifi c subjects, so that a comparison only between East and West would be t oo coarsely.