DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38279.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 7, 1989-1991
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, participants' parents' employment statuses, household composition, and sibling particulars.
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, participants' parents' employment statuses, household composition, and sibling particulars.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Inventory of Peer Activities Public-Use Data DS2: Activity Preferences Public-Use Data DS3: Adolescent Physical Development Public-Use Data DS4: Inventory of Parent/Peer Attachment Public-Use Data DS5: Beck Depression Inventory Public-Use Data DS6: Brief Symptom Inventory Public-Use Data DS7: Boy's Substance Use Public-Use Data DS8: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Public-Use Data DS9: Hostility Toward Women, Version 2 Public-Use Data DS10: Interviewer Ratings Public-Use Data DS11: Target Interview Public-Use Data DS12: Target Interview Restricted-Use Data DS13: (Spi-Fi) Problem Solving Coder Ratings Public-Use Data DS14: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) Public-Use Data DS15: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public-Use Data DS16: Demographics Update Public-Use Data DS17: Demographics Update Restricted-Use Data DS18: Describing Friends Public-Use Data DS19: Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, second edition (DISC-2.1) Depression Section Only Public-Use Data DS20: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public-Use Data DS21: Family Activities List Public-Use Data DS22: Family Event Checklist Public-Use Data DS23: Family Process Coder Ratings Public-Use Data DS24: Family Problem Inventory Public-Use Data DS25: How Important Questionnaire Public-Use Data DS26: Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents Public-Use Data DS27: Issues Checklist Public-Use Data DS28: Life Events Public-Use Data DS29: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public-Use Data DS30: Peer Parent Demographic Questionnaire Public-Use Data DS31: Peer Involvement Public-Use Data DS32: Physical Maturation Scale Public-Use Data DS33: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public-Use Data DS34: Parent Interview Public-Use Data DS35: Parent Interview Restricted-Use Data DS36: Peer Interviewer Impressions Public-Use Data DS37: Peer Interview (Male and Peer) Public-Use Data DS38: Problem Solving Task Discussion Rating Public-Use Data DS39: Problem Solving Task Peer Discussion Rating Public-Use Data DS40: Adolescent Problem Inventory Public-Use Data DS41: Friendship Quality Questionnaire (Peer-Peer Relations) Public-Use Data DS42: Peers and Social Skills Public-Use Data DS43: Male Peer Task Coder Ratings Public-Use Data DS44: Specific Affect Coder Ratings Public-Use Data DS45: Social Control (Social Attitudes) Public-Use Data DS46: School Records Public-Use Data DS47: Parent Substance Use Public-Use Data DS48: Junior High Life Experience Survey Public-Use Data DS49: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public-Use Data DS50: Time Outside School Public-Use Data DS51: Peer Involvement and Social Skills Public-Use Data DS52: Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment Public-Use Data
description: Males between the ages of 15-16 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.