DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38246.v1
title: Oregon Youth Study Wave 4, 1986-1988
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. The 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 parents' substance use. Demographic variables include race, religion, annual household income, and the participants' parents' employment statuses.
description: Not Applicable.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adolescent Physical Development Public Data DS2: Inventory of Parent/Peer Attachment Public Data DS3: Beck Depression Inventory Public Data DS4: Child Depression Public Data DS5: CES-Depression Public Data DS6: Interviewer Ratings Public Data DS7: Target Interview Public Data DS8: Target Interview Restricted Data DS9: Self-Perception Public Data DS10: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) Public Data DS11: Child Unpleasant Event Schedule Public Data DS12: Demographics Update (Cohort 1) Public Data DS13: Demographics Update (Cohort 2) Public Data DS14: Demographics Update (Cohort 2) Restricted Data DS15: Describing Friends Public Data DS16: Family Event Checklist Public Data DS17: Life Events Public Data DS18: Overt-Covert Antisocial Behavior Public Data DS19: Parent Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS20: Peer Involvement Public Data DS21: Parent Interview Public Data DS22: Parent Interview Restricted Data DS23: Peer and Social Skills Public Data DS24: School Records (Cohort 1) Public Data DS25: School Records (Cohort 2) Public Data DS26: Junior High Life Experience Survey Public Data DS27: Teacher Child Behavior Checklist Public Data DS28: Child Telephone Interview Public Data DS29: Parent Telephone Interview Public Data DS30: Peer Involvement and Social Skills (Cohort 1) Public Data DS31: Peer Involvement Cohort and Social Skills (Cohort 2) Public Data
description: Male children between the ages of 12-13 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.