DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38277
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 5, 1987-1989
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 substance use. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Inventory of Peer Activities Public Data DS2: Adolescent Development Public Data DS3: Alcohol Dependence Public Data DS4: Parent Problem Solving Strategies Public Data DS5: Parent/Peer Attachment Public Data DS6: Children's Depression Inventory Public Data DS7: Brief Symptom Inventory Public Data DS8: Boy Substance Use Public Data DS9: Child Depression Public Data DS10: Parent Depression Public Data DS11: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS12: Child Interview Public Data DS13: Child Interview Restricted Data DS14: Child Self-Perception Public Data DS15: Child Problem Solving Strategies Public Data DS16: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Public Data DS17: Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS18: Decision Making Public Data DS19: Demographics Public Data DS20: Demographics Restricted Data DS21: Describing Friends Public Data DS22: Dyadic Adjustment Scale Public Data DS23: Self-Report Delinquency Public Data DS24: Family Activities Public Data DS25: Family Event Public Data DS26: Family Process Coder Ratings Public Data DS27: Family Problem Inventory Public Data DS28: Self Esteem Public Data DS29: Domain Importance Public Data DS30: Issues Public Data DS31: Parent Life Events Public Data DS32: Parent Child Behavior Public Data DS33: Peer Parent Demographic Public Data DS34: Peer Parent Demographic Restricted Data DS35: Peer Involvement Public Data DS36: Parent Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS37: Parent Interview Public Data DS38: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS39: Peer Interviewer Impressions Public Data DS40: Peer Interview Public Data DS41: Family Problem Solving Public Data DS42: Peer Problem Solving Public Data DS43: Adolescent Problem Inventory Public Data DS44: Peer Relations Public Data DS45: Peers and Social Skills Public Data DS46: Peer Task Coder Impressions Public Data DS47: Specific Affect Coder Ratings Public Data DS48: Sports and Hobby Public Data DS49: Social Control Public Data DS50: School Records Public Data DS51: Parent Substance Use Public Data DS52: Life Experience Public Data DS53: Teacher Child Behavior Public Data DS54: Child Telephone Interview Public Data DS55: Time Outside School Public Data DS56: Parent Telephone Interview Public Data DS57: Teacher Peer Involvement Public Data DS58: WISC Vocabulary Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 13-14 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.