DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38284.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 12, 1994-1996
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 12 of the Orgon Youth Study targets males aged 20-21.
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: Adjustment with Partner Data DS2: Inventory of Parent/Peer Attachment Data DS3: Assessing Environments Data DS4: Brief Symptom Inventory Data DS5: Boy's Substance Use Data DS6: CES-Depression Data DS7: Interviewer Ratings Data DS8: Target Interview Public Data DS9: Target Interview Restricted Data DS10: Perceived Stress Scale Data DS11: Self-Esteem (Self-Perception) Data DS12: Dyadic Social Skills Data DS13: Self-Report Delinquency Data DS14: Employer Employment Data DS15: Self-Report Employment Data DS16: Michigan Alcohol Screening Test Data DS17: Parent Interview Public Data DS18: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS19: Young Adult Behavior Checklist Data DS20: Substance Use (Parents') Data DS21: Sex Survey 1 Data DS22: Sex Survey 2 Data DS23: Sex Survey 3 Data DS24: Sex Survey 4 Data DS25: Sex Survey 5 Data DS26: Sex Survey 6 Data DS27: WAIS Block Design Data DS28: WAIS Vocabulary Data DS29: Young Adult Adjustment Scale Data DS30: Young Adult Self-Report Public Data DS31: Young Adult Self-Report Restricted Data
description: Male children between the ages of 20-21 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.