DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38281.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 9, 1991-1993
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. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, the participants' parents' employment statuses, household composition and sibling particulars. Wave 9 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 17-18.
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, the participants' parents' employment statuses, household composition and sibling particulars.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Inventory of Peer Activities Public Data DS2: Activity Preferences Public Data DS3: Adolescent Physical Development Public Data DS4: Adjustment With Partner Public Data DS5: Inventory of Parent/Peer Attachment Public Data DS6: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data DS7: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS8: CES-Depression Public Data DS9: Hostility Toward Women, Version 2 Public Data DS10: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS11: Target Interview Public Data DS12: Target Interview Restricted Data DS13: Perceived Stress Scale Public Data DS14: Problem Solving Coder Ratings Public Data DS15: Self Perception Public Data DS16: Demographics Questionnaire Restricted Data DS17: Describing Friends Public Data DS18: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public Data DS19: Employer Employment Public Data DS20: Family Activities List Public Data DS21: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS22: Family Process Coder Ratings Public Data DS23: Family Problem Inventory Public Data DS24: Issues Checklist Public Data DS25: Life Events Public Data DS26: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS27: Peer Parent Demographic Public Data DS28: Peer Parent Demographic Restricted Data DS29: Peer Involvement Public Data DS30: Physical Maturation Scale Public Data DS31: Parent Interview Impressions Public Data DS32: Parent Interview Public Data DS33: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS34: Peer Interview Impressions Public Data DS35: Peer Interview (Male & Peer) Public Data DS36: Problem Solving Task Discussion Rating Public Data DS37: Problem Solving Task Peer Discussion Rating Public Data DS38: Adolescent Problem Inventory Public Data DS39: Peer Relations Public Data DS40: Peers and Social Skills Public Data DS41: Male Peer Task Coder Ratings Public Data DS42: Anxiety Scale Public Data DS43: School Records Public Data DS44: Parent Substance Use Public Data DS45: Junior High Life Experience Survey Public Data DS46: Sex Survey 1 Public Data DS47: Sex Survey 2 Public Data DS48: Sex Survey 3 Public Data DS49: Sex Survey 4 Public Data DS50: Sex Survey 5 Public Data DS51: Sex Survey 6 Public Data DS52: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS53: Peer Involvement and Social Skills Public Data DS54: Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment Public Data DS55: Wide Range Achievement Test Public Data
description: Males between the ages of 17-18 living in Oregon.
description: coded on-site observation; face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire; telephone interviewFor additional information please refer to the study website.