DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38283.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 11, 1993-1995
title: Version 1

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 since expanded into an intergenerational study, retaining the original young men and including their partners and children. Demographic variables include race, religion, age, sex, and employment information.
description: The goal of this study was to examine the etiology of antisocial behavior 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 the 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: These data include variables about participant's relationships with family, friends, and significant others, mental health, drug use, criminal history, educational history, and sexual history. Demographic variables include race, religion, age, sex, and employment information.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adjustment With Partner Public Data DS2: Parent/Peer Attachment Public Data DS3: Brief Symptom Public Data DS4: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS5: CES-Depression Public Data DS6: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS7: Target Interview Public Data DS8: Target Interview Restricted Data DS9: Perceived Stress Public Data DS10: Self Esteem (Self-Perception) Public Data DS11: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data DS12: Employer Employment Public Data DS13: Self-Report Employment Public Data DS14: Male Opposite Sex Social Skills Public Data DS15: Parent Interview Public Data DS16: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS17: Young Adult Behavior Public Data DS18: Young Adult Adjustment Public Data DS19: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data DS20: Young Adult Self-Report Restricted Data DS21: Sex Survey 1 Public Data DS22: Sex Survey 2 Public Data DS23: Sex Survey 3 Public Data DS24: Sex Survey 4 Public Data DS25: Sex Survey 5 Public Data DS26: Sex Survey 6 Public Data
description: Young men between the ages of 19-20 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.