DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38436
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 17, 1999-2001
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.
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' moods, substance use, interviewer observations, participants' mental health, relationships, and their sexual experiences.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adjustment With Partner Public Data DS2: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data DS3: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS4: Diagnostic Interview Schedule for DSM-IV Restricted Data DS5: CES-Depression Public Data DS6: Composite International Diagnostic Interview Restricted Data DS7: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS8: Target Interview Public Data DS9: Target Interview Restricted Data DS10: Perceived Stress Scale Public Data DS11: Self-Perception Public Data DS12: Conflict Tactics Scale Public Data DS13: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data DS14: Self-Report Employment Public Data DS15: Getting Along with Partner Public Data DS16: Home Questionnaire Public Data DS17: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Public Data DS18: Neighborhood Questionnaire Public Data DS19: Parent Update Questionnaire Public Data DS20: Parent Update Questionnaire Restricted Data DS21: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Public Data DS22: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Restricted Data DS23: Revised Conflict Tactics Scale Restricted Data DS24: Social Information Process Public Data DS25: Sex Survey 1 Public Data DS26: Sex Survey 1 Restricted Data DS27: Sex Survey 2 Public Data DS28: Sex Survey 3 Public Data DS29: Sex Survey 4 Public Data DS30: Sex Survey 5 Public Data DS31: Sex Survey 6 Public Data DS32: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Public Data DS33: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data
description: Adult males between the ages of 25-26 living in Oregon.
description: coded on-site observation; face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaireFor additional information please refer to the study website.