DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38453.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 27, 2010-2011
title: Version 1

description: The original Oregon Youth Study began 1983. The goal was to examine the etiology of antisocial behaviors in boys, with a view to designing preventive interventions within the context of the family and the school. This longitudinal study has expanded over the past few decades into an intergenerational study, retaining the original young men and including their partners and children. Wave 27 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 36-37.
description: The goal of this study was to examine the etiology of antisocial behaviors in boys, with a view to designing preventive interventions within the context of the family and the school.
description: Boys and their families were recruited into the Oregon Youth Study (OYS) by inviting the entire fourth grade (ages 9-10 years) of boys from schools in neighborhoods with a higher-than-usual incidence of delinquency within the medium-sized Pacific Northwestern city to participate. The latter was assessed by analyzing the home addresses of youth committing delinquent acts compared with the school-boundary areas. Thus, the boys were at elevated risk for delinquency due to neighborhood characteristics (in a medium-sized city) but were not necessarily showing conduct problems at the time of recruitment. Juvenile court data regarding the frequency of delinquent episodes (by youth home address) reported by the police was used to calculate (for each of the 43 schools in the districts) the prevalence of delinquency in that neighborhood.
A cohort sequential design was employed for the OYS. Two successive birth cohorts of fourth-grade boys were sampled to permit the replication of results, although sample size is such that almost all studies have involved the two combined cohorts (which had highly similar characteristics).
description: The data includes variables on participants' mental health, self reported crimes, employment, sexual history, drug and alcohol use, and suicide history.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Pain Questionnaire Public Data
DS2: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data
DS3: Boy's Substance Use Public Data
DS4: Diagnostic Interview Schedule for DSM-IV Restricted Data
DS5: CES-Depression Public Data
DS6: Composite International Diagnostic Interview 3.0 Public Data
DS7: Interviewer Ratings Public Data
DS8: Target Interview Restricted Data
DS9: Perceived Stress Scale Public Data
DS10: Self-Esteem (Self- Perception) Public Data
DS11: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Public Data
DS12: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data
DS13: Self-Report Employment Public Data
DS14: Getting Along with Partner Restricted Data
DS15: Confidant Information Form Public Data
DS16: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Restricted Data
DS17: Modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised Public Data
DS18: Physical Measures Restricted Data
DS19: Sex Survey Restricted Data
DS20: UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale Public Data
DS21: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Public Data
DS22: Young Adult Self- Report Public Data
DS23: Suicide History Interview Restricted Data
description: Males between the ages of 36-37 living in Oregon.
description: For additional information please refer to the study website.