DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38282.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 10, 1992-1994
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. Wave 10 of the Orgon Youth Study targets males aged 18-19.
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: Activity Preference Data DS2: Adjustment with Partner Data DS3: Inventory of Parent/Peer Attachment Data DS4: Mental Health Data DS5: Boy's Substance Use Data DS6: CES-Depression Data DS7: Hostility Toward Women Data DS8: Interviewer Ratings Data DS9: Target Interview Public Data DS10: Target Interview Restricted Data DS11: Perceived Stress Scale Data DS12: Self Perception Data DS13: Self-report Delinquency Data DS14: Employer Survey Data DS15: Self-report Employment Data DS16: Family Activities List Data DS17: Male Opposite Sex Social Skills Data DS18: Parent Interview Data DS19: Sex Survey 1 Data DS20: Sex Survey 2 Data DS21: Sex Survey 3 Data DS22: Sex Survey 4 Data DS23: Sex Survey 5 Data DS24: Sex Survey 6 Data DS25: Young Adult Adjust Scale Data
description: Male children between the ages of 18-19 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.