DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38449
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 21, 2003-2005
title: Archival Version

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 20 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 28-29.
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' living situation, income, employment, relationships, financial aid, their school or training experience, sexual history, and criminal records.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adjustment With Partner Public Data DS2: Assessing Environments Public Data DS3: Brief Symptom Inventory 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 Scale Public Data DS10: Self-Perception Public Data DS11: Conflict Tactics Scale Public Data DS12: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Public Data DS13: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data DS14: Self-Report Employment Public Data DS15: Getting Along with Partner Public Data DS16: Grandparent Restricted Data DS17: Home Questionnaire Public Data DS18: Confidant Information Form Public Data DS19: Kinship Social Support Public Data DS20: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Public Data DS21: Neighborhood Questionnaire Public Data DS22: Parent Update Questionnaire Public Data DS23: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Public Data DS24: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Restricted Data DS25: Revised Conflict Tactics Scale Restricted Data DS26: Sex Survey 1 Public Data DS27: Sex Survey 1 Restricted Data DS28: Sex Survey 2 Public Data DS29: Sex Survey 3 Public Data DS30: Sex Survey 4 Public Data DS31: Sex Survey 5 Public Data DS32: Sex Survey 6 Public Data DS33: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Parent Public Data DS34: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data
description: Males between the ages of 29-30 living in Oregon. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: face-to-face interview; telephone interviewFor additional information please refer to the study website.