Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 1, 2001

The Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) explores the relationship qualities and the subjective meanings that motivate adolescent behavior. More specifically, this study seeks to examine the nature and meaning of adolescent relationship experiences (e.g. with family, peers, and dating partners) in an effort to discover how experiences associated with age, gender, race, and ethnicity influence the meaning of dating relationships. The study further investigates the relative impact of dating partners and peers on sexual behavior and contraceptive practices, as well as involvement in other problem behaviors that can contribute independently to sexual risk-taking. The longitudinal design of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) includes a schedule of follow-up interviews occurring one, three, five, ten, and about eighteen years after the initial interview. Additional waves have since been conducted.
Wave 1 of TARS includes detailed data collected from both parents and adolescent respondents about their relationship experiences, including self-reported data from parents, parent-reported data about adolescent respondents, and self-reported data from adolescent respondents. These data are available as a combined dataset organized by adolescent respondent.
The Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) includes several waves of data collection available through ICPSR. Please see the ICPSR Series page for available studies.

本研究旨在探索驱动青少年行为的关系质量与主观意义。更具体而言，本研究试图考察青少年关系体验（如与家人、同伴及约会伴侣的关系）的本质与意义，以揭示年龄、性别、种族及族裔相关的体验如何影响约会关系的意义。研究进一步探讨约会伴侣与同伴对性行为、避孕行为的相对影响，以及对其他可能独立促成性冒险行为的问题行为的参与情况。托莱多青少年关系研究（Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, TARS）采用纵向设计，包含初始访谈后1年、3年及5年的随访访谈计划。目前已完成三波数据收集（2001年、2002年及2004年），第四波数据计划于2006年开展。研究通过笔记本电脑对青少年受访者进行结构化家庭访谈；在第一波中，对100名受访者子样本开展了深度访谈，同时通过自填问卷收集了家长数据。