The Affects Of Peer Pressure & Drugs
Analysis
Peer Pressure is undeniably avoidable in adolescent development. There are many types of peer pressure. These types include: Individual, direct, and indirect. What are these? Individual peer pressure can be explained as self pressure. In other words, it is pressure that comes from one’s own self. Being and feeling different from a group of friends or a certain clique can cause hardship, stress, and insecurity. What does this look like? One might drastically change their style of clothing, music, the way they carry themselves, and how they talk. Common ways of trying to fit in include, experimenting with drugs that one is not in full understanding of and this can further emotional damage to them. Another
type of peer pressure is direct peer pressure. What is this? Direct peer pressure
may be an individual or group of people going to the person and telling them what they should do, be, and say. This is an act of bullying. The final and last type of peer pressure is indirect peer pressure. This type of peer pressure is not always obvious and may be the more common and more damaging of the three. It is common for one to have different groups of friends especially in such a diverse world we live in today.
There is a common saying “You are who you surround yourself with”. One may start to conform to the actions of others without being directly influenced or individually influenced, and before they know it, a dangerous path is gone down. Who is affected by peer pressure? This varies in age but most commonly, when a child leaves home and starts attending school full time, it marks an important time in their life and will prove to show who and what...
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One should remember that not all peer pressure is bad, although that is mostly what you see today. Good peer pressure needs to be done more, because why would you want to make someone do something bad, instead of helping them do something good and impacting them, because honestly who would want a worse world rather than a better one? Truly the way to improve our lives as human beings lies on peer pressure, it is at the core of ways we can make a change for a better, and not more for the
... instead of following the majority. The issue of peer pressure can relate to teens, as they are in constant pressure to be ‘cool’ or to be in the ‘in’ group. It does not really promote individualism, so people cannot develop their own ideas but rather follow the leader of their group.
Peer pressure can be defined as a social influence from members of one's peer group. Peer pressure plays a big role in everyone’s life, whether
Social influence/peer groups were one of the dominant themes in my observations, survey, and literature. Social influence looks at how individual thoughts, actions and feelings are influenced by social groups (Aronson, 2010).The desire to be accepted and liked by others can lead to dangerous behavior. College life can be an overwhelming experience for first time college students and or transfer students as they struggle to manage class time and social activities in an attempt to fit-in in the new environment that they may not be used to. Students can experience too much anxiety and drop out of college or fall behind classes. Working at the Cambell Student Union information Center, I observed a great deal of students falling into this trap of social influence and peer pressure. A female student tripped as she was going up the stairs to Spot Coffee but did not fall. What appears to be a group of guys who are not popular (guys who are not very well known), were seating where popular students normally seat. The group of guys started laughing at the girl and stopped. One guy kept laughing, but it was obvious he was forcing the laughter as to purposely attract attention. He started making jokes about the girl and carrying on the laughter so he would appear to be funny. Another example, which portrays peer influence, involves parties over the weekend. Multiple students stated they were falling behind in classes on the grounds of their friends wanted to go out the night before and they did not want to seem/appear “lame” so they tagged along. The influence of a group is intensified by the person’s desire to be an accepted member of the peer group. To achieve this desire he tries to conform in everyday to the patterns approved by the grou...
Almost everyone has experienced some form of peer pressure before, either negative or positive. There are two forms of peer pressure, explicit and implicit. Explicit peer pressure is when it is said straight out. Implicit peer pressure is when it isn’t said straight out but it is something under the radar, something that everyone is doing and the person being influenced just wants to fit in. For example, a girl starts middle school without pierced ears. Two weeks into the school years she gets pierced ears. An explicit form of peer pressure would be another classmate commenting to this girl that all the cool kids have earrings. An implicit form of peer pressure would be the girl noticing that all the popular girls have earrings so she gets in order to fit in.
Peer pressure is the influence from members of one’s peer group. Peer pressure affect many school aged children, and teenager, because of the desire to want to fit in. Affects of giving into peer pressure can lead to taking drugs, drinking alcohol, and having sex. By researching
Teenagers become caught up with following peers, because the decision is made to become involved in experimental activities by choice. On the other hand, peer pressure in teens can allow mature growth in the student, because the individual can them become a leader within an environment in a positive manner. According to kidshealth.org, “Getting to know lots of different people-
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In 2015 Marquis Wortham wrote an article entitled, “The Affects of Peer Pressure on Adolescents”. According to Wortham, “Peer pressure means, being influence or pushed over by friends\age fellows to do something you do or do not want to do” (p.1). He states that Peer pressure influences teenagers to do things they would not normally do, most of which are negative. High school students are often pressured to have sex before they are ready or else they are “not cool” and at risk of being made fun of by other students.
Everyone at one point or another has desire to fit into a group, whether it is friends, or something else. This is in our nature and this is what makes us humans. In whatever group they are, they wanna feel secure and have a sense of belonging to that group. But what if one’s so called friend betrays the individual or start doing things which are wrong and force the person to do it with them? This is what negative peer pressure is - trying to mess with the minds and forcing them to be an acquaintance with something which is illegal and wrong.
Peer pressure is when we are influenced to do something we normally wouldn't do because we want to fit in with other people or be accepted by our peers (A peer is someone you look up to like a friend, someone in the community or even someone on TV).
Children spend the first six years primarily with their parents, but they will eventually go to school. The friends they make at school become their peers, and the majority of trouble children/teens get into is due to peer pressure. Peer pressure is when a peer or group of peers influences another person to do something they would not normally do. This can be something as small as changing your clothing style, or something as large as stealing and underage drinking. (Langholt) In large cities one of the best examples of peer pressure is gangs. Gangs force their members to participate in activities, usually illegal, in order to gain acceptance. Acceptance is one of the social needs described by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, meaning people are willing to do almost anything required to fit in and fulfill that need (Mcleod). This willingness to conform leads to a lot of trouble, especially in teens. When you are willing to blind...
Peer pressure is big with teenagers in high school. Peer pressure occurs when a teenager wants to be accepted by people of the same age. This is why peer pressure is very common in high school students. One might think that peer pressure only affects a teenager involved in a large group of friends rather than a smaller group of friends, this is because peer pressure can come from one friend or more than one friend. On the other hand, occasionally the peer pressure a teenager feels is coming from within the teen himself or herself. Once a teenager sees his or her friends doing something or getting involved themselves with something they want to get involved also. Some may wonder which type of peer pressure is worse, the type that comes from
Children grow up and move into teenage lifestyles, involvement with their peers, and how they look in other peoples eyes start to matter. Their hormones kick in, and they experience rapid changes in their minds, and bodies. They also develop a mind of their own, questioning the adult standards and need for their parental guidance. By trying new values and testing ideas with peers there is less of a chance of being criticized. Even though peer pressure can have positive effects, the most part is the bad part.