DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37939.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 1, 1984-1985
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 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.
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: Parent Irritability Public Data DS2: CES-Depression Public Data DS3: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS4: Target Interview Public Data DS5: Target Interview Restricted Data DS6: Self Perception Public Data DS7: Demographics 1 Public Data DS8: Demographics 1 Restricted Data DS9: Demographics 2 Public Data DS10: Demographics 2 Restricted Data DS11: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public Data DS12: Family Health History Public Data DS13: Family Activities List Public Data DS14: Family Environment Scale Public Data DS15: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS16: Family Process Coder Ratings Public Data DS17: Social Readjustment Rating Scale Public Data DS18: Issues Checklist Public Data DS19: Adjective Checklist Public Data DS20: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Public Data DS21: Home Observer Impressions Public Data DS22: Overt Covert Antisocial Behavior Public Data DS23: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS24: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised Public Data DS25: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS26: Parent Interview Public Data DS27: Problem Solving Impressions Public Data DS28: Skills Checklist Public Data DS29: Social Control Public Data DS30: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Public Data DS31: School Records Public Data DS32: Parent Substance Use Public Data DS33: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS34: Son's Early History Public Data DS35: Child Telephone Interview Public Data DS36: Parent Telephone Interview Public Data DS37: Vignettes Public Data DS38: Wide Range Achievement Test Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 9-10 living in Oregon. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: coded on-site observation; face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire; telephone interviewFor additional information please refer to the study website .