Oregon Youth Study Wave 11, 1993-1995 (ICPSR 38283)

Version Date: Mar 21, 2022

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Principal Investigator(s):
Deborah M. Capaldi, Oregon Social Learning Center

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38283.v1

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Summary

The original Oregon Youth Study began in 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 since expanded into an intergenerational study, retaining the original young men and including their partners and children. Demographic variables include race, religion, age, sex, and employment information.

Citation

Capaldi, Deborah M. Oregon Youth Study Wave 11, 1993-1995. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38283.v1

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Restrictions

Access to these data are restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reason for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1993 -- 1995

Date of Collection

1993 -- 1995

Data Collection Notes

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Study Purpose

The goal of this study was to examine the etiology of antisocial behavior in boys, with a view to designing preventive interventions within the context of the family and the school.

Study Design

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 the 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).

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

Young men between the ages of 19-20 living in Oregon.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

These data include variables about participant's relationships with family, friends, and significant others, mental health, drug use, criminal history, educational history, and sexual history.

Demographic variables include race, religion, age, sex, and employment information.

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Original Release Date

2022-03-21

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Notes

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