DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38146.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 2, 1984-1986
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 parents' substance use. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Assessing Environments Public Data DS2: Assessing Environments Restricted Data DS3: Parent Irritability Public Data DS4: Child Depression Public Data DS5: CES Depression Public Data DS6: Child Attitude Toward Parents Public Data DS7: Interviewer Child Impressions Public Data DS8: Child Interview Public Data DS9: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS10: Demographics Public Data DS11: Demographics Restricted Data DS12: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public Data DS13: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS14: Activity Survey Public Data DS15: School Loneliness Public Data DS16: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Public Data DS17: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS18: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Restricted Data DS19: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS20: Parent Interview Public Data DS21: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS22: School Form Public Data DS23: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS24: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Restricted Data
description: Male children between the ages of 10-11 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.