The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household
in which respondents lived
in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as
well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and
adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as
well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived
in the
neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities
in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
If the effect of
neighborhood disadvantage is cumulative, lags, or is most salient early
in life, as recent evidence suggests for
adolescent mental health (25), moving out of that context
in adolescence may not provide the
best test of the causal effect of the social environment.