The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as
well as parental
values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as
well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of
community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present —
relations with children and personal and
community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
Those who are seeking for the «secular» meaning of the Gospel could
well turn to Whitehead's doctrine of the secular functions of God.51 God holds the world together by offering his eternal structure of
value to every particular experience so that everything happens in significant
relation to the world order and the
community of beings.
While some marriages are so destructive that divorce or separation is the
best outcome, marriages are more likely to be both happy and stable when marriage is highly
valued & 8212; a key
relation in whose success family, friends, faith
communities, counselors, family - law attorneys, and the wider society have an important stake.