DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38256
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 6, 1988-1990
title: Archival Version

description: The original Oregon Youth Study began in 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. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses. Wave 6 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 14-15.
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 about participants' and their parents' moods, interviewer observations, families' activities, families' health history, participants' school records, and parents' substance use. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Activity Preference Public Data DS2: Adolescent Development Public Data DS3: Beck Depression Inventory Public Data DS4: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS5: Child Diagnostic Interview Public Data DS6: CES-Depression Public Data DS7: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS8: Target Interview Public Data DS9: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS10: Demographics Public Data DS11: Demographics Restricted Data DS12: Elliot Delinquency Scale Public Data DS13: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS14: Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents Public Data DS15: Life Events Public Data DS16: Parent-Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS17: Parent Diagnostic Interview Public Data DS18: Peer Involvement Public Data DS19: Physical Maturation Scale Public Data DS20: Parent Interview Public Data DS21: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS22: School Records Public Data DS23: Junior High Life Experience Survey Public Data DS24: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS25: Child Telephone Interview Public Data DS26: Extracurricular Public Data DS27: Parent Telephone Interview Public Data DS28: Peer Involvement and Social Skills Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 14-15 living in Oregon. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: coded on-site observation; face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire; telephone interviewFor additional information please refer to the study website.