Abstract
Personality and antisocial behaviour: Individual potentiators of contextual effects. The principal aim of this study is to assess the effects of interactions between predictors in determining their impact on self-reported delinquency in Spanish school adolescents. Data were g athered on 3.186 adolescents for several contextual and personal characteristics. Initially, analyses were performed to establish the influence of each factor; subsequently, hierarchical regression analysis was used to determine the degree to which personal variables modulate the influence of family, school, peer groups, and socioeconomic factors. Results are interpreted with emphasis on the need for an interactive non additive perspective. Finally, some metatheoretical considerations are discussed.
