Personality and antisocial behaviour: Individual potentiators of contextual effects.

The principal aim of this study is to assess the effects of interactions be tween predictors in determining their impact on self-reported delinquency i n Spanish school adolescents. Data were gathered on 3.186 adolescents for s everal contextual and personal characteristics. Initially, analyses were pe rformed to establish the influence of each factor; subsequently, hierarchic al regression analysis was used to determine the degree to which personal v ariables modulate the influence of family, school, peer groups, and socioec onomic factors. Results are interpreted with emphasis on the need for an in teractive non additive perspective. Finally, some metatheoretical considera tions are discussed.