Some participants were not included in the study until Wave 2 (n=41) and therefore are not included in the data for Wave 1. Phase 2 and phase 3 data are not available from NACJD at this time. Phase 2 data were collected at annual interviews (1995-1997 Waves 10-12) and phase 3 data were collected biannually (2003,2005 Waves 13, 14). However, parent data were not collected during wave 9 (spring 1992). Phase 1 data (1988-1992 Waves 1-9), were collected at 6-month intervals for both parents and students. Citation View help for Citationĭata for this study were collected in three phases. The research team also collected extensive information about problem behaviors including self-reported delinquency and drug use, gang membership, gun ownership, problem drug use, teenage parenthood, school dropout, and other problem behaviors. When appropriate, the research team collected similar information from both the students and parents to provide multiple perspectives on these developmental issues. The interviews lasted about an hour and cover a wide range of topics including social class position, family structure and processes, educational success, peer relationships, neighborhood characteristics, psychological functioning, social networks, and social support systems, and involvement in prosocial and antisocial behaviors. In addition, interviews with one primary caretaker of each student were conducted eight times at six-month intervals from the Spring of 1988 until the Fall of 1991. In Phase 1 each student was interviewed nine times at six-month intervals from the Spring of 1988 until the Spring of 1992.
These students were selected to over-represent youth at high risk for serious delinquency and drug use. A sample of 1,000 seventh and eighth grade students was selected from Rochester, New York, public schools during the 1987-1988 academic year.
The RYDS examines causes and consequences of delinquency and drug use in an urban sample of adolescents.
The Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986.
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