Psychosocial characteristics of Spanish adolescents

This article summarizes the conclusions of our research on adolescence in Spain. We intented to establish the behavioral patterns-global and differential- in the main field of social life, the relationships of adolescents with their groups, the determinant factors of their antisocial behaviours and, generally, their perception of social reality. Sample size,representative of the Spanish population, was 7580 subjects. We have considered a set of social and demographic outstanding variables and have used a great number of questionnaires and scales to measure our psychological and social dimensions.