DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38280.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 8, 1990-1992
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, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
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 substance use. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adolescent Physical Development Public Data DS2: Beck Depression Inventory Public Data DS3: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS4: Child Diagnostic Interview DISC 2.1 Public Data DS5: CES-Depression Public Data DS6: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS7: Target Interview Public Data DS8: Self-Esteem (Self-Perception) Public Data DS9: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) Public Data DS10: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS11: Demographics Public Data DS12: Demographics Restricted Data DS13: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS14: How Important Questionnaire Public Data DS15: Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents Public Data DS16: Child Depression Inventory Public Data DS17: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS18: Parent Diagnostic Interview DISC 2.1 Public Data DS19: Peer Involvement Public Data DS20: Physical Maturation Scale Public Data DS21: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS22: Parent Interview Public Data DS23: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS24: School Records Public Data DS25: School Records Restricted Data DS26: Junior High Life Experience Survey Public Data DS27: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS28: Peer Involvement and Social Skills Public Data DS29: Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment Public Data DS30: Wide Range Achievement Test Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 16-17 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.