DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36850
title: Research on Adaptive Interests, Skills, and Environments (RAISE) Study, North Carolina, 2015-2019
title: Archival Version

description: The Research on Adaptive Interest, Skills, and Environments (RAISE) project is a coordinated set of pilot studies funded and otherwise supported by the Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk and Resilience (C-StARR) at Duke University. The initial data collection effort (Adolescent T1; 2015; NAHDAP 100737) was conducted by telephone and focused on self-regulation and related skills during early adolescence and their role in early instances of health risk behavior. The survey was comprised of brief measures of constructs in six areas of interest to C-StARR investigators: (1) background and home environment; (2) self-regulation and personality; (3) physical and mental health; (4) problem behaviors; (5) academics and school; and (6) technology use. The representative sample of 2104 adolescents was drawn from the population of fifth through eighth graders enrolled in North Carolina public schools during the 2014-2015 school year.
The Adolescent Time 2 (T2; 2016-2017) survey was administered online for virtually all participants. In addition to the measures collected for the Adolescent T1 study, the Adolescent T2 survey included measures of subjective social status, neighborhood social cohesion and relationships, neighborhood safety, stressful life events, everyday discrimination, and frequency, functions, and parental monitoring of social media use.
The Adolescent Time 3 (T3; 2018-2019) survey was administered online for all participants. In addition to the measures collected for the Adolescent T1 and T2 studies, the Adolescent T3 survey included measures of perceived social mobility, peer substance use, and parental monitoring of digital technology use.
The Parent Wave 1 (2017-2018) survey was administered online for all participants. Respondents were parents or legal guardians (with one respondent per participating child). In addition to demographic information, the survey included measures of work status, stressful life events, depression and anxiety, food security, home, family, and neighborhood context, parent personality, race and politics, and parent perceptions of their child's personality and behavior.
The Parent Wave 2 (2018-2019) survey was administered online for all participants. Respondents were parents or legal guardians (with one respondent per participating child). In addition to the measures collected for the Parent T1 study, the Parent T2 survey included measures of perceived social mobility, parent-child relationship quality, positive parenting behaviors, experience of everyday discrimination, and parent perceptions of their monitoring of their child's digital technology use.
description: The purpose of this study is to examine self-regulation and daily experiences during adolescence and their importance in predicting the development of problem behaviors, health-relevant behaviors, and adaptive self-regulatory strategies.
description: The researchers contracted with Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International to administer the survey instrument to adolescents via the phone. The researcher used contact information obtained from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) administrative records via the North Carolina Education Research Data Center (NCERDC) to reach participants by phone. First, interviewers obtained parental consent for (1) adolescents to complete the survey, (2) to link survey data to administrative data from NCDPI (Nconsented = 2043), and (3) to contact their adolescent for future related studies (Nconsented = 1867). Families could complete the survey instrument without consenting to link their data to administrative records or to be contacted for future studies. Once consent was obtained and adolescents provide assent, interviewers administered the 247-item survey over the phone. Survey administration typically lasted approximately 90 minutes. After completing the survey, adolescents were compensated with $30 via check or Amazon gift code.
description: The variables in the adolescent waves covered the following six modules: (1) background and home environment; (2) self-regulation and personality; (3) physical and mental health; (4) problem behaviors; (5) academics and school; and (6) technology use.
The variables in the parent waves covered the following seven modules: (1) demographics (2) challenges and problems; (3) food security; (4) home, family, and neighborhood context; (5) parent and child personalities; (6) child demographics and behavior; and (7) race and politics.
description: Response Rates: The size of the Adolescent T1 sample
was N = 2104. Of these, 1867 (88.74%)
consented to be contacted regarding the possibility of participation in future
studies.
For the Adolescent T2 study, N = 734 of the original 2104 children
participated, for a response rate of 34.89 percent.
For the Adolescent T3 study, N = 705 of the original 2104 children
participated, for a response rate of 33.51 percent.
For the Parent Wave 1 study, N = 696 of the original 2104 families
participated, for a response rate of 33.08 percent.
For
the Parent Wave 2 study, N = 664 of
the original 2104 families participated, for a response rate of 31.56 percent.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Brief Sensation Seeking Scale
UPPS-P Child Impulsive Behavior Scale
Capacity for Self-Control Scale
Pubertal Maturation Scale
Problem Behavior Frequency Scale
Confusion, Order, and Hubbub Scale
description: The sampling frame for the Adolescent T1
study was comprised of children who were both (a) present in North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) administrative records and (b) enrolled
in grades 5-8 in North Carolina public schools during the 2014-2015 school year.
A simple random sample of
approximately 26,000 children was drawn from the sampling frame, with the
initial goal of enrolling 2,000 children. In a random order, researchers attempted to
contact families of sampled participants; those with valid NCDPI-provided contact
information and who could be reached were invited to participate in the study. Checks
were performed after every 500 enrollments to ensure that the enrolled sample
continued to be representative of the defined sampling frame with respect to
ethnicity, extent of economic disadvantage, and gender.
Ultimately, contact was
attempted with 18,965 families (not all of which proved to have valid contact
information stored in the NCDPI database) to achieve an enrolled sample of 2104 children. Participants in the
final enrolled sample lived in areas characterized by varying levels of income
inequality, poverty, and urbanicity, and were geographically distributed across
the state of North Carolina.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Adolescent Time 1 Public Data
DS2: Adolescent Time 1 Restricted Data
DS3: Adolescent Time 2 Public Data
DS4: Adolescent Time 2 Restricted Data
DS5: Adolescent Time 3 Public Data
DS6: Adolescent Time 3 Restricted Data
DS7: Parent Wave 1 Public Data
DS8: Parent Wave 1 Restricted Data
DS9: Parent Wave 2 Public Data
DS10: Parent Wave 2 Restricted Data
description: Students included in North Carolina Department of Public Instruction administrative records who were enrolled in grades 5-8 in North Carolina public schools during the 2014-2015 school year. Smallest Geographic Unit: None
description: computer-assisted self interview (CASI); computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI); mixed mode; web-based surveyThis collection is being released in multiple parts. Future releases will include one additional wave of adolescent data, one additional wave of parent data, an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study of a subsample of participants, and a home visit study of a subsample of participants, which involved the collection of biological data and included measures of cognitive ability and executive functioning.