DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38434.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 15, 1997-1999
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, the participants' parents' employment statuses, household composition and sibling particulars. Wave 15 of the Oregon Youth Study targets males aged 23-24.
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' employment, relationships, and their sexual experiences.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adjustment With Partner Public Data DS2: Assessing Environments Public Data DS3: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data DS4: Boy's Substance Use Public Data DS5: CES-Depression Public Data DS6: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS7: Target Interview Public Data DS8: Target Interview Restricted Data DS9: Perceived Stress Scale Public Data DS10: Self-Esteem (Self-Perception) Public Data DS11: Conflict Tactics Scale Public Data DS12: Demographics Questionnaire Restricted Data DS13: Dyadic Social Skills Public Data DS14: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data DS15: Self-Report Employment Public Data DS16: Getting Along with Partner Public Data DS17: Home Questionnaire Public Data DS18: Social Networking Public Data DS19: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Public Data DS20: Neighborhood Questionnaire Public Data DS21: NEO Five-Factor Inventory Public Data DS22: Parent Update Questionnaire Public Data DS23: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Public Data DS24: Revised Conflict Tactics Scale Restricted Data DS25: Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding Public Data DS26: Self-Report Psychopathy Public Data DS27: Sex Survey 1 Public Data DS28: Sex Survey 1 Restricted Data DS29: Sex Survey 2 Public Data DS30: Sex Survey 3 Public Data DS31: Sex Survey 4 Public Data DS32: Sex Survey 5 Public Data DS33: Sex Survey 6 Public Data DS34: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Public Data DS35: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data
description: Males between the ages of 23-24 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.