PHDCN: Youth Self-Report Behavioral Data for Chicago Adolescents, Wave 2

1997-2000 survey data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) Longitudinal Cohort Study. The Youth Self Report (YSR) protocol, developed by Thomas M. Achenbach, assessed emotional and behavioral problems in adolescents aged 11 to 18. It was administered to Cohorts 9, 12, and 15, measuring internalizing and externalizing behaviors across six sub-scales.

Use Cases

• Modeling trajectories of internalizing behaviors like anxiety and depression based on self-reported symptoms.
• Analyzing correlations between externalizing behaviors such as aggression and delinquency mentioned in the description.
• Studying the development of specific symptom sub-scales like Withdrawn or Somatic Complaints over time.

Strengths

• Data is part of a large-scale longitudinal study following over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults.
• Assesses standardized measures of adolescent psychology, including six specific sub-scale symptoms.
• Wave 2 contains a reduced set of items compared to Wave 1, which may indicate refinement.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single-city study from 1997-2000.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University, authored by Felton J. Earls.

Collection Method

Self-administered survey (Youth Self Report protocol) as part of the PHDCN Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Time Range

1997-2000

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA