Research on Adaptive Interests, Skills, and Environments (RAISE) Study, North Carolina, 2015-2019

The Research on Adaptive Interest, Skills, and Environments (RAISE) project is a coordinated set of pilot studies funded and otherwise supported by the Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk and Resilience (C-StARR) at Duke University. The initial data collection effort (Adolescent T1; 2015; NAHDAP 100737) was conducted by telephone and focused on self-regulation and related skills during early adolescence and their role in early instances of health risk behavior. The survey was comprised of brief measures of constructs in six areas of interest to C-StARR investigators: (1) background and home environment; (2) self-regulation and personality; (3) physical and mental health; (4) problem behaviors; (5) academics and school; and (6) technology use. The representative sample of 2104 adolescents was drawn from the population of fifth through eighth graders enrolled in North Carolina public schools during the 2014-2015 school year.
The Adolescent Time 2 (T2; 2016-2017) survey was administered online for virtually all participants. In addition to the measures collected for the Adolescent T1 study, the Adolescent T2 survey included measures of subjective social status, neighborhood social cohesion and relationships, neighborhood safety, stressful life events, everyday discrimination, and frequency, functions, and parental monitoring of social media use.
The Adolescent Time 3 (T3; 2018-2019) survey was administered online for all participants. In addition to the measures collected for the Adolescent T1 and T2 studies, the Adolescent T3 survey included measures of perceived social mobility, peer substance use, and parental monitoring of digital technology use.
The Parent Wave 1 (2017-2018) survey was administered online for all participants. Respondents were parents or legal guardians (with one respondent per participating child). In addition to demographic information, the survey included measures of work status, stressful life events, depression and anxiety, food security, home, family, and neighborhood context, parent personality, race and politics, and parent perceptions of their child's personality and behavior.
The Parent Wave 2 (2018-2019) survey was administered online for all participants. Respondents were parents or legal guardians (with one respondent per participating child). In addition to the measures collected for the Parent T1 study, the Parent T2 survey included measures of perceived social mobility, parent-child relationship quality, positive parenting behaviors, experience of everyday discrimination, and parent perceptions of their monitoring of their child's digital technology use.