DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38198
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 3, 1985-1987
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. 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: Adolescent Development Public Data DS2: Alcohol Use Public Data DS3: Armsden-Greenberg Scale Public Data DS4: Child Depression Public Data DS5: Parent Depression Public Data DS6: Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS7: Child Interview Public Data DS8: Child Interview Restricted Data DS9: Child Self-Perception Public Data DS10: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS11: Demographics Public Data DS12: Demographics Restricted Data DS13: Describing Friends Public Data DS14: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public Data DS15: Family Activities Public Data DS16: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS17: Friend Observation Checklist Public Data DS18: Tape Coder Impression Public Data DS19: What I Am Like Public Data DS20: Harter Importance Public Data DS21: Intergenerational Discipline Public Data DS22: Family Issues Checklist Public Data DS23: Parent Life Event Public Data DS24: Lubin Adjective Checklist Public Data DS25: Observer Impressions Public Data DS26: Over-Covert Antisocial Behavior Public Data DS27: Parent Child Behavior Public Data DS28: Peers Public Data DS29: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS30: Parent Interview Public Data DS31: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS32: Problem Solving Public Data DS33: Peers and Social Skills Public Data DS34: Sports and Hobbies Public Data DS35: Social Control Public Data DS36: School Public Data DS37: Substance Use Public Data DS38: Target Child Behavior Public Data DS39: Child Telephone Interview Public Data DS40: Parent Telephone Interview Public Data DS41: Teacher Public Data DS42: Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale Vocabulary Public Data DS43: Wide Range Achievement Test Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 11-12 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.